User:JonRichfield/Vivienne Asya Koorland

Vivienne Asya Koorland (1957 &mdash; ) is a professional artist. She was born in South Africa during the apartheid years and studied at the University of Cape Town. After studying at various other institutions in Europe and the United States, she emigrated to the United States, working mainly in New York.

Early years
Vivienne Koorland was born into a professional family in South Africa, her father being a chemist. Her grandfather was a first violinist in the Cape Town Municipal Orchestra, that later became the Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra. She showed an early artistic talent and on completing her schooling, was admitted to the Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, where she earned her BFA degree in 1978. She furthered her studies in Europe in the early 1980s at École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts and Universität der Künste Berlin, where she earned her MFA degree. She then entered the United states, attending the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and earning a second MFA degree from Columbia University in 1984.

Career
Vivienne's interests, media, and styles were constantly developing and apart from producing her own works, she studied and taught constantly, both independently and in various institutions. For three years in the late 1980s she was Research Archivist at the Frick Art Reference Library