Maia Lehr-Sacks
Artist Biography
Maia Levan Lehr-Sacks was born in Johannesburg in 1996. Lehr-Sacks graduated with a BA in Visual Arts (Fine Art) from Stellenbosch University (cum laude) in 2019 and is currently completing their Master of Fine Art at the Michaelis School of Fine Art. Lehr-Sacks has exhibited their artworks in numerous exhibitions both national and international. Their most notable achievements in the past few years include an installation of eighty paper sculptures exhibited on the group show The Space Between (2016) at The South African Jewish Museum, having an artwork selected as one of the New signatures top 100 (2018), and participating for two years in a row in the Tankwa Artscape Residency (2018 and 2019) at Stonehenge Private Reserve in the Karoo. Documentation of the works created during the 2019 residency was exhibited on Contemporary Nature, an exhibition in Sfântu Gheorghe, Romania.
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