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Lien Botha was born in Gauteng, South Africa in 1961. She worked as a press photographer for Beeld before moving to Cape Town in 1984 where she graduated with a BFA from Michaelis School of Fine Art in 1988.
She experiments with the photographic medium beyond its documentary framework, through enigmatic images deconstructing reality and place. Botha is also a lecturer, curator and novelist.
Lien Botha's work has been shown in 14 solo exhibitions in London, Paris, New York, Berlin, Brussels and Lisbon. She was exhibited at 1-54: Contemporary Art from Africa in London in 2016. Her work is in the collections of Wellesley College, Massachusetts and the Natural World Museum in San Francisco. Her book Yonder is in the collection of the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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The year of birth of the artist is: 1961