Esther Beraha AKA Ana Esther Soued, is a contemporary and abstract Jewelry Designer and Metalsmith artist who lives and works in Miami, Florida. A native of Caracas, Venezuela, Esther has always been fascinated by nature, free forms have always been present in her art, abstraction is a constant in her pieces and its reflected in the geometrical shapes and clean lines of her sculptural work. As the artist explain;” The most satisfying element of my work is that my pieces always transmit something different to the viewer”.

After completing her degree in Business Administration in 1990, she enrolled in a metalsmith academy in Caracas where she spends 4 years learning the aspect of metal work experience through working with gemstones, patinas, thickness, shapes and properties of different types of metals and many other techniques. After she concluded her studies in 1994, she enrolled simultaneously in two silversmith academies where she gains more knowledge and expertise.

In 1995 Esther moved to Charlotte, NC where she opened a gallery and continue designing one of a kind wearable pieces, small scale sculptures and utilitarian art objects. At that time, she was also teaching metalsmith classes at her gallery. In 2000 she moves to Miami opens her own metalsmith studio, from 2004-2016 she was a professor teaching jewelry making and gemology at Miami International University of Art and Design for the School of fashion – Accessory design, and in 2014 she taught jewelry making at Miami Dade College for the School of Philosophy and Art.

In 2011 she obtains her Master’s Degree in Fine Arts, Visual Arts at Miami International University. Esther’s First group exhibition was in 1990 Utilitarian Silver Work in Venezuela and her first solo show was in 1996 at First Light Gallery, Charlotte NC. Since then she has exhibited in various countries individually and collectively in galleries and museums. The last exhibition her pieces were showcased was in 2018, The Ames Maison Museum, Massachusetts.