Sascha Braunig (born 1983) is a Canadian painter. She is best known for her hyperrealist and surrealist paintings of lay figures.

Life and education

Braunig was born in

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and lives and works in Portland, Maine. In 2005, Braunig received a BFA in painting and photography from

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. She went on to graduate with her MFA in painting from Yale School of Art in 2008.

Work

While at Yale School of Art, Braunig began experimenting with video. She frequently uses lighting effects and simple materials such as clay or styrofoam to create three-dimensional models or masks, on which she bases the figures in her paintings. Braunig has received two Macdowell fellowships, in 2013 and 2023, where she worked in

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. In 2015 she took part in the New Museum triennial exhibition titled ''Surround Audience''. She has had solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1, New York and at Norway's Kunsthall Stavanger. Her work is included in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, among others. Her inspirations range from contemporary film directors like

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to the

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painters of the Northern Renaissance, such as

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. Braunig was included in the 2014

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book ''100 Painters of Tomorrow''.

References

1983 births 21st-century Canadian women artists 21st-century Canadian painters Artists from British Columbia People from the Regional District of Nanaimo Artists from Portland, Oregon Living people Cooper Union alumni Yale School of Art alumni MacDowell Colony fellows Multimedia artists {{Canada-painter-stub