Erika Suhr was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and is currently a sophomore at Maryland Institute College of Art studying Interdisciplinary Sculpture. She is a Merit Award Winner from the 2012 YoungArts Awards, and a National Silver Key Winner from the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for Portfolio in the Visual Arts. Erika’s artwork deals with conceptualization of space and place as an interactive element with the people that inhabit them. Through her work, she aspires to ask the question: For what do human beings labor?