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List Of Mexican Women Artists
This is a list of women artists who were born in Mexico or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. A *Amelia Abascal (born 1923), painter, sculptor *Graciela Abascal (1939–2020), painter * Eunice Adorno (born 1982), photographer *Tanya Aguiñiga (born 1978), designer, contemporary artist * Ana Karen Allende (active since 2002), doll designer * Lourdes Almeida (born 1952), photographer *Lola Álvarez Bravo (1903–1933), photographer *Pola Weiss Álvarez (1947–1990), video artist * Blanka Amezkua (born 1971), contemporary artist *Laura Anderson Barbata (born 1958), contemporary artist * Yolanda Andrade (born 1950), photographer *Angélica Argüelles Kubli (born 1963), graphic designer * Mónica Arreola (born 1976), visual artist * Patricia Aridjis (born 1960), visual artist, photographer * Marcela Armas (born 1976), performance artist, interdisciplinary artist B * Mely Barragán (born 1975), contemporary artist *Sofía Bassi (1913–1998), surrealist pain ...
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Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Mexico covers ,Mexico
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Sofía Bassi
Sofía Bassi (July 28, 1913 – September 11, 1998) was a Mexican painter and writer noted for her surrealist work as well as her personal life, which included five years in prison for murder. She maintained an active career despite incarceration, painting her first mural in prison in Acapulco, with the assistance of Alberto Gironella, José Luis Cuevas, Rafael Coronel and Francisco Corzas. This mural can now be found at the municipal building of the city. Life Bassi was born in Ciudad Camerino Mendoza, Veracruz, a town named after her uncle, who served in the Mexican Revolution. Her original name was Sofía Celorio Mendoza, changing it later for artistic purposes. She studied philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México for two years. However, in 1964 she began to teach herself how to paint. Bassi was married twice. Her first marriage was when she was very young and ended in divorce after producing her first two children, Hadelin and Claire Diericx. Her s ...
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Rosario Cabrera
Rosario Cabrera (born Rosario Cabrera López; June 5, 1901 – December 30, 1975) was a modern Mexican artist who was active in the early 20th century. The Museum of Mexican Women Artists has called her the "first great Mexican painter of the twentieth century". Cabrera’s childhood was marked by the death of her parents and their influence on her artistic abilities. Early life Cabrera studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes starting in 1916 and had her first individual exhibition at the school in December 1920. Cabrera’s landscapes and portraiture were the focus of her career which displayed a range of artistic styles from Realism (arts), realism to impressionism. She also studied sculpture and had a keen sense of proportion and shape. Cabrera was one of the first women to become involved in wood engraving following her involvement with Alfredo Ramos Martínez and the Open Air Painting Schools. She spent time in Europe in the 1920s pursuing her art practice before re ...
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Geles Cabrera
Geles Cabrera Alvarado (born August 2, 1929 in Mexico City) is a Mexico City sculptor who has worked in a variety of materials, there is a museum dedicated to her work in the south of the city. Life Geles Cabrera was born in Mexico City to Salvador Cabrera and Jovita Alvarado. Her father was a civil engineer and the owner of a factory that made paper mache decorations in art nouveau style for upper-class homes. Two of her aunts were recognized artists: Rosario Cabrera, a painter who worked with the art schools promoted by José Vasconcelos and Consuelito Cabrera, a soprano. Her interest in art began young and was encouraged by the family. Geles’ interests include music well as art, studying both dance and visual arts. From 1943 to 1947, she studied mornings at the Academy of San Carlos, and in the afternoons/evenings, she studied classical and folk dance at the Escuela de Danza, which was at the Abelardo L. Rodriguez Market. In 1947, her father had to close the factory and t ...
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Rocio Caballero
''Rocio'' is a small genus of cichlid freshwater fishes from southern Mexico and northern Central America. Species There are currently four recognized species in this genus: * ''Rocio gemmata'' Contreras-Balderas & Schmitter-Soto, 2007 – from the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico * ''Rocio ocotal'' Schmitter-Soto, 2007 – from Lake Ocotal, Mexico * ''Rocio octofasciata'' ( Regan, 1903) (Jack Dempsey) – from Honduras to southern Mexico * '' Rocio spinosissima'' ( Vaillant & Pellegrin, 1902) – Lake Izabal basin, Guatemala These have historically been placed in the genera '' Cichlasoma'' or '' Heros'', but they are quite distinct. ''R. gemmata'' and ''R. ocotal'' were typically regarded as populations of the closely related ''R. octofasciata'' until 2007; a review in 2018 recommended that ''R. gemmata'' should be considered a synonym A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language ...
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Marisa Boullosa
Marisa Boullosa (born 11 March 1961, Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican artist. She lives and works in San Miguel De Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. Her work is included in the collections of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, the National Gallery of Australia and the Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Uruguay. Education Marisa Boullosa went to school for restoration, conservation, and museography. In 1979 she went back to school at Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) where she studied engraving and painting. Then in 1986, she went to the University of Toronto to study wire textile sculpture. She continued her education again in Barcelona, Spain, at thMassana School of Art and Designwhere she focused on painting and printmaking. She received her master's degree in Studio Arts at thREALIA Institute for Culture and Artsin Xalapa, Mexico. Art career Boullosa's first solo ...
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Helen Bickham
Helen Bickham is a Mexican artist, from Eurasian with American parents who began painting professionally later in life. She was born in Harbin, moving to the United States during World War II. She lived in Europe for a while but settled in Mexico in 1962 after visiting the country. She began drawing at the age of six, drawing and painting non-professionally until 1975 when she considers her career to have begun. She has had seventy individual exhibitions, participated in over 300 collective ones and has been a member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana since 1997. Her work is figurative, generally one or more figures on one or more landscapes, and described as introspective, with the aim of conveying a feeling or mood rather than a person or object. Life Helen Bickham was born on June 9, 1935, in Harbin, Manchuria at the time of Japanese occupation. Her mother, Nadezna Ivanofnof Rachoak, was from a mixed Ukrainian/Asian family, and her maternal grandfather worked for the Tra ...
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Maris Bustamante
Maris Bustamante (born November 10, 1949) is a Mexican interdisciplinary artist. She has presented her work in 21 solo exhibitions and over 400 group shows in Mexico and internationally. She has conceived, written, produced and executed more than 250 performances, installations, environments and two big “contraespectáculos” (anti-shows). Busta has also presented performance art pieces through television broadcasts, which she called "social performances" involving the non-arts public. She also designs sets, costumes, and props for theatre, television, and cinema. Bustamante is a respected teacher and for more than thirty years has been a professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana de la Unidad Azcapotzalco. Since the 1990s she has maintained a robust career as a researcher and writer on themes related to conceptual art, performance, and participation. Her writing has appeared in seminal books and exhibition catalogues, including ''Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the ...
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Rocío Boliver
Rocío Boliver is a Mexican performance artist who creates body art about gender, sexuality, pain and pleasure. In 1992, Boliver began her career as a performance artist reading her porno-erotic writings. Boliver has a background in video and Mexican theatre. From 1994 to 2007 she worked in theatre projects, performance and contemporary art, collaborating with the playwright Juan José Gurrola . Boliver has performed at a variety of venues such as museums, raves, universities, galleries, activist meetings and TV programs. An underground cultural icon in Mexico, Boliver is part of a Goth-art scene, and has presented works at alternative forums such as the Sadomasochism Sadomasochism ( ) is the giving and receiving of pleasure from acts involving the receipt or infliction of pain or humiliation. Practitioners of sadomasochism may seek sexual pleasure from their acts. While the terms sadist and masochist refer ... National Festival. Boliver's work has presented in North America, ...
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