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Ledelle Moe was born in Durban, South Africa where she studied sculpture at Technikon Natal, graduating in 1993. Active in the local art community, Moe was one of the founding members of the FLAT Gallery, an artist initiative and alternative space in Durban. A travel grant in 1994 took her to the United States where she embarked on a period of study at the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Sculpture Department Master’s program. She completed her Master’s Degree there in 1996 and soon after accepted an adjunct position in the Sculpture Department at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, Maryland. Later she taught at the Corcoran College of Art in Washington, DC, Virginia Commonwealth University and St Mary’s College of Maryland. Moe has exhibited in a number of venues including the Kulturhuset (Stockholm, Sweden) the NSA Gallery (Durban, South Africa), the International Sculpture Center (Washington, DC), The Washington Project for the Arts (Washington, DC) and American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York. In 2002 Moe was the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Award and in 2008 Kreeger Museum Artist Award. Throughout this time Moe remained strongly connected to South Africa, returning to visit annually. In 2013 she has returned to live and work in South Africa and teach at Stellenbosch University. Projects include large-scale concrete installations at Socrates Park in New York City, the African Museum of Art in Washington DC, Biennale Internationale D’Art, Martinique, Perez Museum, Miami, Semaphore Gallery in Neuchatel, Switzerland, Biennale De Dakar, Dakar, Senegal, MASS MoCA, Massachusetts, USA, SMAC Gallery, Cape Town and the CONGO Biennale in Kinshasa.