Marlene Dumas

Marlene Dumas is an artist and painter born on August 3, 1953, in Cape Town, South Africa. Known for her figurative painting and expressionism style, she explores themes of identity, racial issues, and eroticism. She has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Amsterdam. Of mixed-race and fluent in Afrikaans and English, she comes from a family of artists and is a single mother of two children. Open-minded, sassy, and freaky, Marlene enjoys playing piano and collecting vintage clothing.