Ann Holden-Moses is a native of Oklahoma City. She earned her BA from Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts (1988), and her MFA from Indiana University, Bloomington (1991). She also attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chautauqua Institute of Art, New York, and was Artist-in-Residence at the Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont. She taught painting and drawing for the Bloomington Area Arts Council and the Indiana University Summer Abroad Program in Florence, Italy. From 1995-2001, she was Adjunct Professor at Tokai University, Tokyo, Japan. She has exhibited regularly and her work is in numerous private collections both in the US and abroad. She lives with her husband and son in Norman, Oklahoma.