This is a list of women artists who were born in

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

or whose artworks are closely associated with that country.

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Zina Aita Zina Aita (1900–1967) was a Brazilian artist that practised early modernism within Brazilian culture. She worked hard with many artists in this time trying to captivate and enhance Brazil's unique culture to the public, something that was unique ...

(1900–1967), Italian-Brazilian modernist painter *

Georgina de Albuquerque Georgina de Albuquerque (February 4, 1885 – August 29, 1962) was a Brazilian Impressionist painter and teacher. She was known for her interest in female subjects. Her husband Lucílio was a noted painter in his own right and the two are strongl ...

(1885–1962), Impressionist painter *

Mara Alvares Mara Alvares (Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1948) is a Brazilian artist. She mainly specialized in photography as one of her notable works is the Adansônia. She first studied metal engraving with the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul with Iberê C ...

(born 1948), contemporary artist *

Marina Amaral Marina Amaral (born in 1994) is a Brazilian artist known for her colorizations of historical black and white photographs. Work A self-taught artist, she was an international relations student in college, but dropped out in April 2015 to pursue a ...

(born 1994), known for colorization of historical photographs *

Tarsila do Amaral Tarsila de Aguiar do Amaral (; 1 September 1886 – 17 January 1973) was a Brazilian painter, draftswoman, and translator. She is considered one of the leading Latin American modernist artists, and is regarded as the painter who best achieved Bra ...

(1886–1973), modernist painter * Abigail de Andrade (1864–1890), painter *

Amanda Maciel Antunes Amanda Maciel Antunes is an LA based multidisciplinary artist working in painting, costuming, performance, writing, and installation art. She was born and raised in the countryside of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Antunes was born in Sorocab ...

(fl 2000s), costume designer * Camila Alves (born 1982), fashion designer * Maria Auxiliadora (1935–1974), painter

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Brígida Baltar Brígida Baltar (1959/1960 – 8 October 2022) was a Brazilian visual artist. Her work spanned across a wide range of mediums, including video, performance, installation, drawing, and sculpture. She was interested in capturing the ephemeral in h ...

(c.1959–2022), visual artist * Ladjane Bandeira (1927–1999), painter, art director *

Tatiana Blass Tatiana Blass (born in São Paulo, São Paulo (state), SP, 1979) is a Brazilian artist that constructs complex abstract narratives with her performances, paintings, videos, and installations. Blass began her career creating Abstract art, abstrac ...

(born 1979), contemporary artist * Vera Chaves Barcellos (born 1938), visual artist *

Lia Menna Barreto Lia Mascarenhas Menna Barreto (born March 3, 1959, in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian studio artist currently based in Rio Grande do Sul. Biography Barreto was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Rio de Janeiro on March 3, 1959. She spent her child ...

(born 1959), painter *

Lenora de Barros Lenora de Barros (São Paulo, SP, 1953) is a Brazilian artist and poet. She studied linguistics at the University of São Paulo before establishing her artistic practice during the 1970s, and has remained committed to the exploration of language ...

(born 1953), contemporary artist *

Edith Behring Edith Behring (January 17, 1916 – January 25, 1996) was a Brazilian artist and educator. Life Behring was born in Rio de Janeiro. Behring studied drawing and painting with Candido Portinari. She went on to earn a degree in art education fro ...

(1916–1996), painter *

Alice Brill Alice Brill (December 13, 1920 – June 29, 2013) was a German-born Brazilian photographer, painter, and art critic. Life and career Alice Brill Czapski was born in Cologne, Germany, in 1920. She was Jewish, the daughter of the painter and the ...

(1920–2013), German-Brazilian painter and photographer * Elisa Bracher (born 1965), sculptor

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* Carlota De Camargo Nascimento (1904–1974), sculptor *

Marina Camargo Marina Camargo (born 1980) is a Brazilian visual artist who works in various media including video, photograph, installation and drawing. She lives and works in Porto Alegre (Brazil) and Berlin (Germany). Early life and education Born in Macei� ...

(born 1980), multimedia artist * Maria Cândido (born 1939), artist working with clay * Josely Carvalho (born 1942), multimedia artist *

Leda Catunda Leda Catunda Serra, known as Leda Catunda (born 1961) is a Brazilian painter, sculptor, graphic artist and educator. She is a representative name of the ''Geração 80'' artists' group. Her works explore the limits of textures and materials, being ...

(born 1961), painter, engraver, educator * Catia Chien (fl 2007), illustrator * Sandra Cinto (born 1968), contemporary artist * Lygia Clark (1920–1988), painter, installation artist * Mariza Dias Costa (1952–2019), cartoonist * Tereza Costa Rêgo (1929–2020), painter

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* Liliane Dardot (born 1946), painter *

Djanira da Motta e Silva Djanira da Motta e Silva (20 June 1914, in Avaré – 31 May 1979, in Rio de Janeiro), known artistically as just Djanira, was a Brazilian painter, illustrator and engraver. She was known for her naïve art paintings, depicting Brazilian common ...

(1914–1979), painter, illustrator, engraver

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Sonia Ebling Sonia Ebling (1918–2006) was a Brazilian sculptor and teacher. Biography Born in Taquara, Ebling began her art studies in painting and sculpture, in the Schools of Fine Arts of Rio Grande do Sul and Rio de Janeiro between 1944 and 1951. In 19 ...

(1918–2006), sculptor *

Laura Erber Laura Erber (born 1979) is a Brazilian writer and visual artist. She has exhibited throughout Brazil and Europe. Erber writes poetry that is internationally recognized, along with short stories, essays, and books. She works in multiple languages. ...

(born 1979), video artist, writer

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Bea Feitler Beatriz Feitler (February 5, 1938 – April 8, 1982) was a Brazilian designer and art director best known for her work in ''Harper's Bazaar'', ''Ms.'', ''Rolling Stone'' and the premiere issue of the modern '' Vanity Fair''. Early life, educa ...

(1938–1982), book cover and catalogue designer * Julieta de França (1870–1951), sculptor * Angela Freiberger (born 1953), sculptor, performance artist * Iole de Freitas (born 1945), sculptor, engraver, installation artist

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Anna Bella Geiger Anna Bella Geiger, (born 1933, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a Brazilian people, Brazilian multi-disciplinary artist of Jewish-Polish people, Polish ancestry, and professor at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage. She lives in Rio de Janeiro, ...

(born 1933), multidisciplinary artist, educator * Olívia Guedes Penteado (1872–1934), art patron, activist *

Sonia Gomes Sonia Gomes (Caetanópolis, Minas Gerais,1948) is a Brazilian contemporary artist who lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil. Gomes frequently employs found objects and textiles in her works, twisting, stretching, and bundling them to fashion wiry ...

(born 1948), sculptor * Carmela Gross (born 1946), visual artist

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Eli Heil Eli Heil (1929–2017) was a Brazilian painter, sculptor, ceramicist, tapestry maker and poet. She exhibited on numerous occasions in Brazil and abroad. Early life Eli Malvina Heil was born in 1929 in Palhoça in Santa Catarina State in Brazil. S ...

(1929–2017), painter, sculptor, ceramist

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Adriana Janacópulos Adriana Janacópulos (1897 - c. 1978) was a 20th-century Brazilian sculptor. Biography Adriana Janacopulos was born in Petrópolis Rio de Janeiro in 1897. Of Greek descent, she was the niece of the politician Pandiá Calógeras. After the deat ...

(1897–c.1978), sculptor

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* Renina Katz (born 1925), printmaker, painter * Eleonore Koch (1926–2018), painter, sculptor

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* Felícia Leirner (1904–1996), sculptor * Sheila Leirner (born 1948), curator, art critic, activist *

Juliana Cerqueira Leite Juliana Cerqueira Leite (born 1981) is a Brazilian sculptor based in New York, known for creating large-scale works that explores the physical presence of the human body. She is considered to push the boundaries of sculpture. Life and educati ...

(born 1981), sculptor * Ju Loyola (born 1979), cartoonist, illustrator *

Renata Lucas Renata Lucas (born 1971) is a Brazilian artist. She was born in Ribeirão Preto. Lucas received a BFA and MFA from the University of Campinas and a PhD from the University of São Paulo. In 2001, in partnership with a group of artists, she open ...

(born 1971), painter * Mariannita Luzzati (born 1963), painter, engraver, video artist

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Solange Magalhães Solange Magalhães is a painter. Solange Magalhães was born in France in 1939. Her family moved to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil when she was 13 years old. In 1963, after three years of studying theoretical physics, she chose to be a painter. She is ...

(born 1939), French-born Brazilian painter *

Anita Malfatti Anita Catarina Malfatti (December 2, 1889 – November 6, 1964) is heralded as the first Brazilian artist to introduce European and American forms of Modernism to Brazil. Her solo exhibition in Sao Paulo, from 1917–1918, was controversial ...

(1889–1964), modernist painter *

Cinthia Marcelle Cinthia Marcelle was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in 1974. She is a Brazilian multimedia artist focusing in photography, video and installation work. She studied at the Universitadad Federal de Minas Gerais. She lives and works in Belo Horizo ...

(born 1974), multimedia artist * Maria Martins (1894–1973), sculptor *

Sylvia Martins Sylvia Martins (born 1956) is a Brazilian painter. Born in Bagé, Martins studied at the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro from 1973 to 1976. She then moved to New York, studying at the School of Visual Arts in 1978 and at the Art Students Leag ...

(born 1956), painter *

(born 1959), sculptor * Alessandra Meskita (fl 2007), fashion designer *

Alice Miceli Alice Miceli (born 1980) is a Brazilian artist. She lives and works in Rio de Janeiro and New York. Early life She was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, and studied film at the École supérieure d'études cinématographiques in Paris. Caree ...

(born 1980), video artist * Beatriz Milhazes (born 1960), painter *

(1914–1979), painter, illustrator, printmaker

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* Ananda Nahu (born 1985), street artist * Naza (born 1955), abstract painter * Constancia Nery (born 1936), naive art painter *

Rivane Neuenschwander Rivane Neuenschwander (born 1967) is a Brazilian artist. She is known for work that explores language, nature, geography, the passing of time and social interactions. At times her works are interactive, involving viewers in spontaneous and particip ...

(born 1967), contemporary artist *

Teresa Nicolao Teresa Nicolao (born February 8, 1928) is a Brazilian artist, designer and film maker. She was born Maria Tereza Joaquim Nicolao in Rio de Janeiro. Nicalao studied graphic arts and design with Axel Leskoscheck at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas. In ...

(born 1928), painter, set designer *

Lucia Nogueira Lucia Nogueira (1950–1998) was a Brazilian artist specialising in sculptures and installations, video works and drawings. Her work often alluded to the body and was concerned with the relationship between objects and language. Biography Nogue ...

(1950–1998), painter

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Tomie Ohtake was a Japanese Brazilian visual artist. Her work includes paintings, prints and sculptures. She was one of the main representatives of informal abstractionism in Brazil. Biography Ohtake was born in 1913 in Kyoto. In 1936, when she was twen ...

(1913–2015), Japanese-Brazilian painter, sculptor, print maker *

Christina Oiticica Christina Oiticica (born 23 November 1951) is a Brazilian artist. She has been married to Paulo Coelho since 1980. Oiticica is known for using an exotic neoconcretist technique that is reminiscent of both land art and eco art, a technique tha ...

(born 1951), painter * Lydia Okumura (born 1948), abstract painter *

Camila Oliveira Fairclough Camila Oliveira Fairclough (born 1979) is a Brazilian and British artist who lives in Paris. Early life Camila Oliveira Fairclough was born in 1979 at Rio de Janeiro. She studied at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage (Rio de Janeiro) ...

(born 1979), visual artist * Fayga Ostrower (1920–2001), Polish-born Brazilian engraver, painter, educator

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Ana Maria Pacheco Ana Maria Pacheco (born 1943) is a Brazilian sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Her work is influenced by her Brazilian heritage and often focuses on supernatural themes, incorporating them into unfolding narratives within her work. Pacheco's work ...

(born 1943), painter, sculptor, now in the UK *

Lygia Pape Lygia Pape (7 April 1927 – 3 May 2004) was a Brazilian visual artist, sculptor, engraver, and filmmaker, who was a key figure in the Concrete art, Concrete movement and a later co-founder of the Neo-Concrete Movement in Brazil during the ...

(1927–2004), sculptor, engraver, filmmaker *

Letícia Parente Letícia Parente (1930–1991) was a Brazilian visual artist who specialized in politically charged video art. Her surreal short films feature elements of body art and performance art. Much of her work is centered around protesting the use of ...

(1930–1991), video artist * Regina Parra (born 1981), contemporary artist * Rosana Paulino (born 1967), visual artist, educator and curator *

Marianne Peretti Marie Anne Antoinette Hélène Peretti (born December 13, 1927) is a French-Brazilian artist. Biography Peretti was born in Paris. Her mother was the French model Antoinette Louise Clotilde Ruffier and her father was João de Medeiros Perett ...

(born 1927), French-Brazilian sculptor, muralist and stained glass artist * Wanda Pimentel (1943–2019), painter *

Luiza Prado Luiza Jesus Prado, known as Hifa Cybe is a transdisciplinary artist born in Guaratingueta, Brazil, in 1988. She uses artistic tools such as photography, performance, video art, installation, sculpture, painting, new media, body art, music and ...

(born 1988), multidisciplinary artist

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Anna Letycia Quadros Anna Letycia Quadros ( September 25, 1929 — October 30, 2018) was a Brazilian artist and educator. She was born in Teresópolis and studied with at the Associação Brasileira de Desenho e Artes Visuais in Rio de Janeiro, with André Lhote, wit ...

(1929–2018), painter

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Madalena dos Santos Reinbolt Maria Madalena Santos Reinbolt (September 14, 1919 – 1977) was a Brazilian self-taught painter and textile artist who created "paintings with paint" and "paintings with wool" that depicted rural scenes reminiscent of the artist's childhood in Bah ...

(1919–1977), painter, textile artist

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Neide Sá Neide Dias de Sá (born November 2, 1940) is a Brazilian artist who spent a big portion of her life (about twenty years) teaching children art starting in the 1960s. Together with three others, she began an art movement in 1967 known as Poema/Pro ...

(born 1940), painter * Gretta Sarfaty (fl 1970s), Greek-Brazilian painter and multimedia artist * Katie van Scherpenberg (born 1940), painter *

Regina Silveira Regina Silva Silveira (born 1939) is a Brazilian artist known for her work with light, shadows and distortions exploring ideas of reality. Silveira has used many media throughout her career but focuses mainly on videography, painting, and print ...

(born 1939), painter * Luzia Simons (born 1953), painter * Camila Soato (born 1985), oil painter * Nathália Suellen (born 1989), digital artist

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Amelia Toledo Amelia Amorim Toledo (São Paulo, São Paulo (state), SP, 1926 - Cotia, SP, 2017) was a Brazilian sculptor, painter, draftsman and designer. With a career that expanded over fifty years, Toledo explored multiple artistic languages, techniques, mate ...

(1926–2017), sculptor, painter *

Clarissa Tossin Clarissa Tossin (born 1973) is a visual artist from Brazil and based in Los Angeles. Her collaborative, research-based practice develops alternative narratives found in the built environment, using elements of installation, sculpture, and movin ...

(born 1973), painter * Celeida Tostes (1929–1995), sculptor, ceramist *

Iracema Trevisan Iracema Trevisan Carneiro (born 28 September 1982 in Poços de Caldas, Minas Gerais), also known as Ira, is a Brazilian designer. She was the bassist for Brazilian indie-electro band CSS. She studied fashion design Fashion design is the Art (s ...

(born 1982), fashion designer * Yara Tupynambá (born 1932), painter

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Adriana Varejão Adriana Varejão (born 1964, Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian artist. She works in various disciplines including painting, drawing, sculpture, installation and photography. She was an artist-in-resident at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 2004. ...

(born 1964), painter, drawer, sculptor and installation artist *

Cybèle Varela Cybèle Varela (born 1943, Petrópolis) is a Brazilian mixed-media artist. She is a painter, video artist, and photographer. Career From 1962 to 1966, Cybèle Varela studied visual arts at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro. She began h ...

(born 1943), painter, video-artist, photographer *

Nicolina Vaz de Assis Nicolina Vaz de Assis Pinto do Couto (Campinas, 1874 – Rio de Janeiro, 1941) was a Brazilian sculptor. Early life She began her studies at the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro , where she entered in 1897, and studied under Pr ...

(1874–1941), sculptor *

Fernanda Viégas Fernanda Bertini Viégas (born 1971) is a Brazilian computer scientist and graphical designer, whose work focuses on the social, collaborative and artistic aspects of information visualization. Biography Viégas studied graphic design and art h ...

(born 1971), graphical designer *

Mary Vieira Mary Vieira (1927–2001) was a Brazilian sculptor. She was born and raised in Minas Gerais. She at the studied with Alberto da Veiga Guignard in Belo Horizonte. She also studied sculpture with Franz Weissmann and Amilcar de Castro. In 1947, she e ...

(1927–2001), sculptor

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* Hilde Weber (1913–1994), cartoonist, illustrator * Bertha Worms (1868–1937), French-Brazilian painter

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* Márcia X (1959–2005), performance artist * Niobe Xandó (1915–2010), painter

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Carla Zaccagnini Carla Zaccagnini (born 1973) is a Brazilian artist and curator. Early life and education Zaccagnini was born in Buenos Aires in 1973. In 1981 she moved to Brazil with her family. She received a BFA degree from the Fundação Armando Alvares P ...

(born 1973), painter and curator {{Lists of women artists by nationality - Brazilian women artists, List of Women artists, List of Brazilian Artists Artists