# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ruth-sacks
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:01:48.499Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ruth-sacks"
name: "Ruth Sacks"
slug: "ruth-sacks"
description: "Ruth Sacks is a South African artist who lives and works in Johannesburg. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the South African Research Chair Initiative (SARChI) for Social Change at Fort Hare University. Sacks holds a PhD (Arts) from the University of the Witwatersrand where she was a fellow at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER). Her third artist book, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under Seas, was launched in 2013. She is a laureate of the HISK in Ghent. She was one of the facilitators of the artist-run project space the Parking Gallery, hosted by the Visual Arts Network of South Africa (VANSA) in Johannesburg. Ruth Sacks' work has been presented internationally in venues such as the African Pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007, the ZKM Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe in 2011 and the National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi in 2017."
tagline: "South African artist (born 1977)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1977-09-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.85
  momentum:             6.666666666666668
  historical:           6.801692
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ruth Sacks"
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    title: "روث ساكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Sacks"
    title: "Ruth Sacks"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Sacks"
    title: "Ruth Sacks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Sacks"
    title: "Ruth Sacks"
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    title: "Ruth Sacks"
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    title: "Ruth Sacks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Sacks"
    title: "Ruth Sacks"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump