Iva Haas was born during the separation war of Yugoslavia in 1993 and came to the United States from Belgrade, Serbia in 2013. A graduate of the Rhodes Island School of Design, she is currently a long-term artist and resident of the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana. Haas’s work often defies description, and as the artist states herself, “The sculptures are pure pleasure combined with absurdity and represent me as much as what I love and repel.”