Marlene Dumas was born in Cape Town and grew up in the Western Cape. She graduated from the University of Cape Town in 1975 with a degree in Fine Art. Dumas then spent three years studying art at Ateliers €˜63 in Haarlem, Netherlands between 1976 and 1978, and studied Psychology at the University of Amsterdam in the early 1980s. Dumas is best known for her oil paintings on canvas and her works in