Tessa Teixeira was born in Mpumalanga in 1969. She lives and works in Johannesburg, where she has been exploring and engaging her practice in Painting & Mixed Media, Installation and Printmaking. Teixeira studied art at the University of the Witwatersrand. She spent two decades being involved in projects addressing access for housing in lower Income sectors, and rural development economic needs in South Africa. In 2010 she obtained her MFA at The San Francisco Academy of Arts University and thereafter she enrolled for further various art courses in London.