About the artist

Anne Kathrin Greiner was born and raised in the South of Germany. In 2002, she graduated with a 1st Class Honours degree from the photography and film programme at Napier University in Edinburgh, Scotland. The following year, she moved to London to study on the fine art photography course at the Royal College of Art. Whilst there, she received a scholarship for a three month artist residency in Kyoto, Japan, as well as numerous prizes. In 2005, Greiner's work was selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries exhibition, travelling to venues in Manchester, Bristol and London. Recent awards include Flash Forward from the Magenta Foundation for the Arts, three consecutive nominations (2006, 2007, 2008) for the Raymond Weil International Photography Prize, the Sotiri Prize for Young Photographers 2009, PHPA and the Goldrausch Künstlerinnen art IT scholarship 2010. Greiner’s work has been exhibited widely and forms part of private and public collections in the UK, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, Russia and the United States.