Ruth Sacks

Dr Ruth Sacks is an academic and visual artist whose research interests include southern cities in the Anthropocene, decolonising design and post independence aesthetics in Africa.

Sacks’ first academic monograph, Congo Style: From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence, was published by Michigan University Press in 2023. Her most recent artist book, The Remaindering, launched in 2022.

Sacks is a senior lecturer at the University of Johannesburg’s Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (Visual Art Department) and she is a research associate at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research.

Sacks was one of the co-directors of the large-scale group project Response-ability at the Joubert Park Greenhouse Project (Johannesburg, 2020-1).