Biography of Terry Kurgan
Terry Kurgan completed a BAFA degree at the California College of Art, San Francisco, USA and an MFA at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town. She has taught at a range of South African universities. Kurgan won the prestigious FNB Vita Prize for contemporary art in 2000. She often consults to media and social communications companies and was nominated with her client and collaborators for the Business Art South Africa/Business Day awards in 2004 and 2005. She has been awarded many grants and awards in support of her public realm projects, the most recent, Hotel Yeoville, a social networking programme for immigrants. She has exhibited broadly, nationally and internationally, and her work is represented in most major public and corporate South African collections and art publications. Terry Kurgan lives and works in Johannesburg.
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