Christine Sefolosha is a Swiss

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

 painter. Born in Montreux

Montreux

Montreux is a municipality in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.It is located on Lake Geneva at the foot of the Alps and has a population, , of and nearly 90,000 in the agglomeration.- History :...

, Sefolosha has created works that have been shown at numerous one person and group exhibitions

Art exhibition

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, including at the Cavin Morris Gallery in New York

New York City

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American Visionary Art Museum

American Visionary Art Museum

The American Visionary Art Museum is an art museum located in the Federal Hill neighborhood at 800 Key Highway in Baltimore, Maryland and that specializes in the preservation and display of visionary art...

 in Baltimore

Baltimore

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 and the Galerie Polad-Hardouin and the Halle Saint-Pierre in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

. She lived in South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

 for nine years.

Christine is the mother of Thabo Sefolosha

Thabo Sefolosha

Thabo Patrick Sefolosha is a Swiss professional basketball shooting guard who plays for Fenerbahçe Ülker in Turkey. He is also under contract with the Oklahoma City Thunder of the NBA, but is playing overseas because of the 2011 NBA lockout....

, member of the Oklahoma City Thunder

Oklahoma City Thunder

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 basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

club.

She founded the studio Quai 1-L'Atelier in 2000 within Montreux' train-station waiting room

External links

• Cavin Morris Gallery
• Arbre de lune (short bio and picture, French-language source)
• http://www.rawvision.com/articles/66/sefolosha/sefolosha.html