Olivia Holm-Møller studies at the Emilie Mundt and Marie Luplaus Drawing School and later the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, where she enrolls from 1901 to 1910. However, her studies were marked by several breaks, and she leaves the academy without taking her final exam.

Holm-Møller never marries, but in the spring of 1915 her sister-in-law dies of two small boys. She interrupts her budding career, returns to her hometown of Homå and takes on the role of childminder and housekeeper for her brother Severin. Like so many of her colleagues, Holm-Møller travels to educate herself and find inspiration. Her first trip in 1905 is to London, but even in her old age she maintains a lively travel activity and sought out distant and exotic destinations.

In the past few years, Olivia Holm Møller has been shown at the exhibition “Farveskriget” in 2006 at Gl. Holtegaard, Baunhøj Mølle in Grenaa, 2017, and most recently at “Gnist”, Gl. Strand, in collaboration with J.F. Willumsen and Asger Jorn.