This is a list of women artists who were born in Mexico or whose artworks are closely associated with that country.

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Amelia Abascal Amelia Abascal Gómez (born 1920) was a Spanish-born Mexican painter, sculptor, and ceramist. Life and career Abascal was born in Madrid, Spain in 1920. She was primarily a self-taught artist. After arriving in Mexico in 1940 at the age of ...

(born 1923), painter, sculptor *

Graciela Abascal Graciela Abascal Compean (March 21, 1939 - August 7, 2020) was a Mexican painter. Life Born in Mexico City, Abascal studied in her native city at the Universidad Iberoamericana for three years; she spent ten years studying painting with Jos� ...

(1939–2020), painter * Eunice Adorno (born 1982), photographer *

Tanya Aguiñiga Tanya Aguiñiga (born 1978, in San Diego, California) is a Los Angeles–based artist, designer, and activist. Early life and education Although she was born in the United States, Aguiñiga spent her childhood living in Tijuana, Mexico. Fr ...

(born 1978), designer, contemporary artist * Ana Karen Allende (active since 2002), doll designer * Lourdes Almeida (born 1952), photographer *

Lola Álvarez Bravo Lola Álvarez Bravo (3 April 1903 – 31 July 1993) was the first Mexican female photographer and a key figure in the post-revolution Mexican renaissance. Known for her high level of skill in composition, her works were seen by her peers as fin ...

(1903–1933), photographer *

Pola Weiss Álvarez Pola Maria Weiss Álvarez, also known as Pola Weiss, was widely recognized as the first pioneer of video art in Mexico. She is also remembered for her experimental videos in which she merged dance and video, becoming a pioneer in what is now known ...

(1947–1990), video artist * Blanka Amezkua (born 1971), contemporary artist *

Laura Anderson Barbata Laura Anderson Barbata (born 1958) is a contemporary artist. Based in Brooklyn and Mexico City, Barbata's work uses art and performance to encourage social justice by documenting traditions and involving communities in her practice. Early life ...

(born 1958), contemporary artist * Yolanda Andrade (born 1950), photographer *

Angélica Argüelles Kubli Angélica Argüelles Kubli (born 25 June 1963) is a Mexican graphic designer. In May 2011 her work was exhibited for the Mexican National Lottery, and the design used on lottery tickets. She won the Mexican quality and design prize Excelsis Diaman ...

(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

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* Mely Barragán (born 1975), contemporary artist *

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 incarcerati ...

(1913–1998), surrealist painter, writer * Jeannette Betancourt (born 1959), sculptor, multidisciplinary artist * Cannon Bernáldez (born 1974), visual artist, photographer * Katnira Bello (born 1976), conceptual artist, performance artist, photographer *

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 Mex ...

(born 1956), performance artist *

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 ...

(born 1949), interdisciplinary artist *

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 Mexic ...

(born 1935), Eurasian painter now in Mexico * Marisa Boullosa (born 1961), painter, printmaker * Rosa Borrás (born 1963), painter, performance artist, graphic designer * Fernanda Brunet (born 1964), painter

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* Rocio Caballero (born 1964), figurative painter * Valeria Caballero (born 1986), visual artist, curator, photographer *

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 Salva ...

(born 1929), sculptor *

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 twe ...

(1901–1975), painter * Yolanda Cabrera (active since 1999), painter * Adriana Calatayud (born 1967), visual artist, photographer *

Celia Calderón Celia Calderón (1921-1969) was a Mexican artist best known for her engraving work but she was also noted for her oils and watercolors. She was a member of the Sociedad Mexicana de Grabadores, Taller de Gráfica Popular and the Salón de la Plás ...

(1921–1969), engraver, painter *

Valerie Campos Valerie Campos Maldonado (born December 25, 1983, in Mexico City) is a Mexican artist. She spent her early years in Los Angeles (California) with street art and lowbrow as some of her first visual influences. Self-taught, she began painting at t ...

(born 1983), graphic artist * Tania Candiani (born 1974), contemporary artist * Estrella Carmona (1962–2011), painter * Angélica Carrasco (born 1967), graphic artist * Lilia Carrillo (1930–1974), painter *

Leonora Carrington Mary Leonora Carrington (6 April 191725 May 2011) was a British-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City and was one of the last surviving participants in the surrealist movement o ...

(1917–2011), English-born Mexican painter * Ana Casas Broda (born 1965), photographer *

Rosalinda Cauich Ramirez Rosalinda Cauich Ramirez (born February 24, 1962) is a Mexican artisan specializing in basket weaving. Her work has been recognized with various awards. Cauich Ramirez was born in Kopchén, a small community 22 km southwest of Felipe Carrillo ...

(born 1962), basket weaver * Cerrucha (born 1984),

artivist Artivism is a portmanteau word combining ''art'' and ''activism'', and is sometimes also referred to as ''Social Artivism''. The term artivism in US English takes roots, or branches, off of a 1997 gathering between Chicano artists from East Los An ...

, photographer * Nelly César (born 1986), experimental and multidisciplinary visual artist * Mayra Céspedes (born 1981), visual artist, photographer * Maria Eugenia Chellet (born 1948) photographer, mixed media, performance artist *

Livia Corona Benjamin Livia Corona Benjamin (born 1975) is a Mexican artist that centers her work on the relationship of human experience and the man-made. Her recent work is artisanal but combines multi genre practice of the developing world and new innovations. Biogr ...

(born 1975), multi-media artist *

Olga Costa Olga Costa (August 28, 1913 – June 28, 1993) was a painter and cultural promoter who immigrated to Mexico from Germany when she was twelve. She began to study art at the Academy of San Carlos but left after only three months to help support he ...

(born 1993), German-born painter * Margarita Cruz Sipuachi (active since 2000), potter * Verónica Cuervo (born 1958), photographer, cinematographer *

Lola Cueto María Dolores Velázquez Rivas, better known as "Lola" Cueto (Azcapotzalco, March 2, 1897 – Mexico City, January 24, 1978) was a Mexican painter, printmaker, puppet designer and puppeteer. She is best known for her work in children’s thea ...

(1897–1978), painter, puppet designer

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* Marianna Dellekamp (born 1968), photographer, conceptual artist * Yvonne Domenge (born 1946), painter, sculptor *

Olga Dondé Olga Dondé (May 23, 1937 – November 16, 2004) was a Mexican artist involved in various fields but best known her still life pieces. She was a self-taught painter, who worked for two years until she decided to enter works in a show in 1968. From ...

(1937–2004), painter * Mónica Dower (born 1966), British-born Mexican painter, photographer, performance artist * Kimberly "Shmi" Duran (born 1989), muralist

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Daniela Edburg Daniela Edburg (born 1975) is a Mexican American visual artist who creates photo-based works in which she often incorporates textile elements. Edburg's work has been exhibited at the Carrillo Gil Museum, Mexico City; Guangdong Museum of Art, Chin ...

(born 1975), photographer, installation artist. * Natalia Eguiluz (born 1978), feminist artist * Laura Elenes (1933–2005), painter, sculptor, printmaker *

Helen Escobedo Helen "Elena" Escobedo (July 28, 1934 – September 16, 2010) was a Mexican sculptor and installation artist who has had work displayed all over the world from Mexico, Latin America, the United States, and Canada to the United Kingdom, (Germany) ...

(1934–2010), sculptor, installation artist * Angélica Escoto (born 1967), photographer, performance artist * Carol Espíndola (born 1982), photographer * María Ezcurra (born 1973), feminist artist

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* Sonia Félix Cherit (born 1961), activist, feminist visual artist *

Ana Teresa Fernández Ana Teresa Fernández (born 1980) is a Mexican performance artist and painter. She was born in Tampico, Tamaulipas, and currently lives and works in San Francisco. Fernández attended the San Francisco Art Institute, where she earned bachelor's and ...

(born 1980), performance artist, painter * Andrea Ferreyra (born 1970), Uruguayan-born Mexican visual artist, art critic, curator * Sairi Forsman (born 1964), sculptor

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* Liliana Gálvez (born 1981), painter * Claudia Gallegos (born 1967), visual artist * Maru de la Garza (born 1961), visual artist, photographer *

Carmen Gayón María del Carmen Gayón Córdova ( Mexico City, 1951) is a Mexican artist. Her work is primarily focussed on engraving, however she also explores other techniques, such as relief, book illustration and wire sculptures. Together with Nunik Saure ...

(born 1951), printmaker * Manuela Generali (born 1948), Swiss painter active in Mexico * Mercedes Gertz (born 1965), painter *

Maya Goded Maya Goded Colichio (born 1967, Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican photographer and documentary film maker. Since 2002 she has been allied with Magnum Photos and has developed a special focus on images of people from hidden or shunned communities ...

(born 1967), photographer, filmmaker *

Andrea Gómez Andrea Gómez (born April 13, 1985, in Mérida, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Venezuela International 2004 and was the official representative of Venezuela to the Miss International 2005 pageant h ...

(1926–2012), graphic artist, muralist * Consuelo González Salazar (born 1941), painter * Lucero González (born 1947), feminist artist, photographer, videographer *

Ilse Gradwohl Ilse Gradwohl (born 1943 in Gleisdorf, Austria) is a Mexican painter. She was born in Austria, but moved to Mexico in 1973, where she studied art at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). In 1996 she had a solo exhibition at the Museo ...

(born 1943), Austrian-born Mexican painter *

Patricia Greene Patricia Honor Greene (born 1931) is an English radio, television and film actress, who is best known as matriarch Jill Archer in radio serial ''The Archers''. She has played the role continuously since 1957, making her the world's longest ser ...

(born 1952), textile artist * Lourdes Grobet (born 1940), photographer * Silvia Gruner (born 1959), sculptor, video artist * Joyce de Guatemala (1938–2000), sculptor * Ángela Gurría (born 1929), sculptor, first female member of the Academia de Artes *

Eloísa Jiménez Gutiérrez María Eloísa Jiménez Gutiérrez (August 30, 1908 – 1990) was a Mexican painter. Born in León, Guanajuato, Gutiérrez studied with Antonio Segoviano from the time she was thirteen, She painted largely portraits until 1940, in which year she ...

(1908–1990), painter *

Azteca de Gyves Azteca de Gyves (born February 16, 1963) is a Mexican artist from Juchitán de Zaragoza in the state of Oaxaca. She is of Zapotec heritage and one of only two prominent female artists in her city. She has been a member of the Salón de la Plástic ...

(born 1963), painter

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* Martha Hellion, visual artist * Marianela De La Hoz (born 1956), painter

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* Graciela Iturbide (born 1942), photographer * María Izquierdo (1902–1955), painter

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Rosa Lie Johansson Rosa Lie Johansson (died 2004) was a Swedish-Mexican painter whose work was recognized with membership in the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana. Life Rosa Lie Johansson was born in Gothenburg, Sweden at an unknown date. She first studied painting i ...

(died 2004), Swedish-Mexican painter

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Frida Kahlo Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (; 6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954) was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, ...

(1907–1954), painter * Berta Kolteniuk (born 1958), contemporary artist, curator * Perla Krauze (born 1953), painter * Anna Kurtycz (1970–2019), graphic artist

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* Magali Lara (born 1956), contemporary artist *

Myra Landau Myra Landau (December 5, 1926 – July 14, 2018) was an artist and abstract painter involved in art research. Born in Bucharest, Romania, she was known largely for the work she made in Brazil, then Mexico for many years and later in Italy, Israel ...

(1926–2018), Romanian born Mexican painter * María José Lavín (born 1957), sculptor *

Rina Lazo Rina Lazo Wasem (October 23, 1923 – November 1, 2019) was a Guatemalan-Mexican painter. She began her career in mural painting with Diego Rivera as his assistant. She worked with him from 1947 until his death in 1957 on projects both in Mexico ...

(1923–2019), Guatemalan muralist active in Mexico *

Paula Lazos Paula Lazos (June 30, 1940 – January 27, 2010) was a Mexican painter whose work has been exhibited in both North and South America and recognized with membership in the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana. Life Lazos was born in Cuernavaca, where s ...

(1940–2010), painter * Gabriela León (born 1973), activist, visual artist, poet *

Alma López Alma López (born 1966) is a Mexican-born Queer Chicana artist. Her art often portrays historical and cultural Mexican figures, such as the Virgin of Guadalupe and La Llorona, filtered through a radical Chicana feminist lesbian lens. Her art wor ...

(active since 1999), radical Chicana artist

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* María José de la Macorra (born 1964), contemporary artist * Elsa Madrigal (born 1971), printmaker *

Tosia Malamud Tosia Malamud (March 17, 1923 – July 16, 2008) was a Mexican sculptor of Ukraine, Ukrainian origin, one of the first female graduates of Mexico's National School of Arts (UNAM), Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas. Her family immigrated to Mexi ...

(1923–2008), sculptor * Rocio Maldonado (born 1951), contemporary artist * Luna Marán (born 1986), filmmaker * Teresa Margolles (born 1963), conceptual artist, photographer, videographer, performance artist * Carmen Mariscal (born 1968), photographer, sculptor, videographer *

Lucía Maya Lucía Maya (born 1953 in Santa Catalina Island, California) is a Mexican painter, sculptor and lithographer whose work has been displayed at the Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon, the Puerto Rico Museum of Co ...

(born 1953), painter, sculptor, lithographer *

Mónica Mayer Mónica Mayer (born 1954) is a feminist Mexican artist, activist, and art critic whose work includes performance, digital graphics, drawing, photography and art theory. As a conceptual artist, curator, art critic and art theorist she has been e ...

(born 1954), conceptual artist, performance artist, photographer * Edith Medina (born 1979), visual artist, curator * Miriam Medrez (born 1958), sculptor * Patricia Mejía Contreras (1958–2007), sculptor, graphic artist * Carol Miller (born 1933), sculptor, author * Sarah Minter (born 1953), filmmaker * Carmen Mondragón (1893–1978), model, painter, poet *

Natasha Moraga Natasha Moraga is an American-born Mexican tile artist who specializes in the trencadis technique. She has created a number of murals in Puerto Vallarta, and is currently working on a project (Parque de los Azulejos) to completely cover the L ...

, contemporary mural artist * Maritza Morillas (born 1969), contemporary painter * Amor Muñoz (born 1979), visual artist

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* María de Jesús Nolasco Elías (1944–2000), potter * Dulce María Nuñez (born 1950), painter

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* Gabriela Olivo de Alba (born 1953), performance artist * Guillermina Ortega (born 1960), visual artist * Iliana Ortega (born 1981), visual artist *

Emilia Ortiz Emilia Ortiz Pérez (Tepic, 1917 – Tepic, November 24, 2012) was a Mexican painter, cartoonist, caricaturist, and poet, best known for her watercolors. Her father, Abraham D. Ortiz, had arrived at Tepic originally from Oaxaca where he married ...

(1917–2012), painter, cartoonist, caricaturist, poet

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Irma Palacios Irma may refer to: People * Irma (name), a female given name * Irma (singer), full name Irma Pany, a Cameroonian female singer-songwriter Places * Irma, Alberta, Canada, a village * Irma, Lombardy, Italy, a ''comune'' * Irma, Wisconsin, USA, a ...

(born 1943), abstract painter *

Marta Palau Bosch Marta Palau Bosch (17 July 1934 – 13 August 2022) was a Spanish-Mexican artist who resided in Mexico. She worked in engraving, painting, sculpture, and most prominently in tapestries, defining herself by her profound artistic use and arrangem ...

(born 1934), sculptor, painter, textile art *

Sandra Pani Sandra Pani (born December 18, 1964Sandrapani.infArtista Retrieved 2011-11-09. in Mexico City) is a Mexican artist. Background She showed an interest for painting and music since she was very young, beginning piano lessons when she was 9 years o ...

(born 1964), painter * Tatiana Parcero (born 1967), photographer * Ámbar Past (born 1949), poet, visual artist * Alicia Paz (active since 1998), painter * Nirvana Paz (born 1976), visual artist, poet *

Dulce Pinzon Dulce Pinzón (born 1974 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican artist currently living in Brooklyn, New York, Mexico City, Mexico, and Montreal, Montreal, Canada. In 2015 she was named by Forbes Magazine as "One of the 50 most creative Mexicans i ...

(born 1974), contemporary artist * Ambra Polidori (born 1954), photographer, filmmaker * Maribel Portela (born 1960), sculptor, potter * Ale de la Puente (born 1968), conceptual artist, writer, curator

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* Georgina Quintana (born 1956), visual artist *

Grace Quintanilla Grace Quintanilla (1967 - 2019, Mexico City, Mexico) was an artist, curator and producer working in the field of new media art and digital culture. Biography Quintinilla studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee, S ...

(1967–2019), transdisciplinarity artist * Lorena Quiyono (born 1967), painter, installation artist, performance artist

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Fanny Rabel Fanny Rabel (August 27, 1922 in Poland – November 25, 2008 in Mexico City), born Fanny Rabinovich, was a Polish-born Mexican artist who is considered to be the first modern female muralist and one of the youngest associated with the Mexic ...

(1922–2008), Polish-born Mexican muralist * Adriana Raggi Lucio (born 1970), painter, photographer, videographer * Regina Raull (1931–2019), Spanish-born Mexican painter * Alice Rahon (1904–1987), poet, painter *

María Luisa Reid María Luisa Reid (full name María Luis Reid Rodríguez; b. November 18, 1943) is a Mexican artist from Zacatepec de Hidalgo, Zacatepec in the state of Morelos. She is a member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana. She studied decorating and i ...

(born 1943), painter, sculptor * Aurora Reyes Flores (1908–1985), painter, first Mexican female muralist * Myriam de la Riva (born 1940), painter * Mirna Roldán (born 1988), feminist visual artist *

Betsabeé Romero Betsabeé Romero (born 1963) is a Mexican visual artist. Her works include sculptures, installations, printmaking, perforated paper, photographs, and videos. She has exhibited widely, and has been featured in more than forty one-person exhibi ...

(born 1963), sculptor, printmaker, photographer * Ingrid Rosas (born 1967), abstract artist * Elizabeth Ross (born 1954), visual artist, writer, curator * Verónica Ruiz de Velasco (born 1968), painter

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* Herlinda Sánchez Laurel (born 1941), painter, educator * Alma Karla Sandoval (born 1975), poet * Maruch Santíz Gómez (born 1975), photographer, writer, textile designer * Marcia Santos (born 1990), multidisciplinary visual artist * Nunik Sauret (born 1951), printmaker *

Naomi Siegmann Naomi Siegmann (1933 – 28 February 2018) was an American artist who developed her career in Mexico, and was noted for her depiction of everyday objects outside their normal contexts. She began her career after she moved to Mexico with her famil ...

(1933–2018), sculptor

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Bridget Bate Tichenor Bridget Bate Tichenor (born Bridget Pamela Arkwright Bate) (November 22, 1917 – October 20, 1990) was a British surrealist painter of fantastic art in the school of magic realism and a fashion editor. Born in Paris, she later embraced Mexico a ...

(1917–1990), surrealist painter * Katia Tirado (born 1965), performance artist * Ángeles Torrejón (born 1963), photographer *

Felipa Tzeek Naal Felipa Tzeek Naal is a Mexican artisan specializing in traditional Maya palm frond weaving. Her work is well-known regionally and has been recognized by the Fomento Cultural Banamex, who named her a "grand master". She lives in Nunkini, a small ...

(active from c.2001), palm frond weaver

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* Cordelia Urueta (1908–1995), painter *

Lucinda Urrusti Lucinda Urrusti (1929 – 25 March 2023) was a Spanish-born Mexican artist, whose work has gained fame not only from the writing of art critics, but also by poets and writers from other fields, such as Carlos Fuentes. She was born in Melilla to a ...

(born 1929), painter

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* Minerva Valenzuela (born 1976), scenic artist * Remedios Varo (1908–1963), para-surrealist painter *

Angélica Delfina Vásquez Cruz Angélica Delfina Vásquez Cruz, also known as the Ceramista del Preciosismo (born 20 September 1958), is a potter from Oaxaca, Mexico. Biography Angélica Delfina Vásquez Cruz was born in Santa María Atzompa Santa María Atzompa is a town a ...

(born 1958), potter * Yvonne Venegas (born 1970), photographer *

Isabel Villaseñor Isabel 'Chabela' Villaseñor ( Guadalajara, 18 May 1909 - Mexico City, 13 March 1953) was a noted post-revolutionary Mexican sculptor, printmaker, painter, poet, and songwriter. Biography Villaseñor was born in the city of Guadalajara. In 1928 ...

(1909–1953), sculptor, printmaker, painter, poet, songwriter

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(1947–1990) dancer, video artist * Lorena Wolffer (born 1971), activist artist * Marysole Wörner Baz (1936–2014), painter, sculptor

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* Mariana Yampolsky (1925–2002), photographer * Charlotte Yazbek (1919–1989), sculptor * Niña Yhared (1814) (born 1977), visual artist, performance artist * Vida Yovanovich (born 1949), Cuban-born Mexican photographer

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* Irene Zundel (born 1958), contemporary artist {{Lists of women artists by nationality - Mexican women artists, List of Artists Artists