Born in Havana, Cuba, Myrtha Vega graduated with a degree in Architecture from the University of Havana. She fled from the Castro regime and came to the U.S. in the 1960s.
After earning a Masters Degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Michigan, she worked in Montreal, Canada, designing public spaces for the 1967 World’s Fair, Expo ‘67. She subsequently worked as a Landscape Architect and Interiors Architect in the U.S. until 1999.
She began a serious pursuit of her interest in art in the late 1980s, studying with several Atlanta painters and Georgia State University. Art is now her full time career.
Her work consists of abstracts, portraits, and landscapes in oil, acrylic and mixed media, and pen and ink collages. She carries a sketch book with her at all times. Her art is in private collections in the U.S., France and Spain.
Selected Group Exhibitions
- Marietta/Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, Georgia
- City of Atlanta, Office of Cultural Affairs, City Hall East
- Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia
- Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Georgia
- The Quinlan Visual Arts Center, Gainesville, Georgia
- The Forum at Defoors Centre, Atlanta, Georgia
- Sturgis Library Gallery, Kennesaw State University, Kennewaw, Georgia
- American Intercontinental University, Atlanta, Georgia
- Chastain Center Art Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
- Ruth Hall Hodges Gallery at Morris Brown College, Atlanta, Georgia
- Fulton County Public Library, Atlanta, Georgia
- Sandy Springs Public Library, Sandy Springs, Georgia
- Buckhead Public Library, Atlanta, Georgia
- Alliance Theater, Atlanta, Georgia
- Gwinnett Center for the Arts, Duluth, Georgia
- Art Station Gallery, Stone Mountain, Georgia
- Soapstone Center For the Arts, Atlanta, Georgia
- Urban Nirvana Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
- Artist Frame of Mind Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
- Barnes and Noble Bookstores, Dunwoody, Georgia
- Atlanta Artists Center Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
- Georgia State University Student’s Art Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
- U.S. Internal Revenue Service, Atlanta, Georgia
- U.S. General Services Administration, Atlanta, Georgia
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Atlanta, Georgia
- Artists Atelier of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia
Selected One and Two Person Shows
- Central Congregational United Church of Christ, Atlanta, Georgia
- Sandy Springs Public Library, Sandy Springs, Georgia
- U.S. Internal Revenue Service, Lilburn, Georgia
- Universalist Unitarian Church of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia
- Georgia State University Student’s Art Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
- New Visions Gallery at Tula, Atlanta, Georgia
- Barnes and Noble Bookstores, Dunwoody, Georgia