Vivienne Koorland is a South African Contemporary artist who lives and works in New York City, NY, USA. Her works are influenced by her upbringing during apartheid South Africa, where she was raised by a mother who survived the Holocaust. Koorland paints on hand-hewn burlap and linen and grapples with themes such as injustice, displacement, war, and sociocultural issues. Source: Strauss & Co