Maritza Morillas (born 1969) is a contemporary painter from Mexico. Her works are typified by dark imagery of death and decomposition. Her work also delves into social issues such as contemporary the food industry, with imagery of the preternatural and horrific techniques used in
factory farming
Intensive animal farming or industrial livestock production, also known by its opponents as factory farming and macro-farms, is a type of intensive agriculture, specifically an approach to animal husbandry designed to maximize production, while ...
. She is also well known in Mexico for her work dealing with the
deaths in Ciudad Juárez
Death is the irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain an organism. For organisms with a brain, death can also be defined as the irreversible cessation of functioning of the whole brain, including brainstem, and brain ...
, the mass murder of young women along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Morillas graduated from the school of artes plásticas at
UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). Major influences on her work are
Francisco de Goya and
Arturo Rivera
Arturo Rivera (15 April 1945 – 29 October 2020) was a Mexican painter based in Mexico City.
Early life and education
Rivera was born in Mexico City in 1945. He studied painting at Academia de San Carlos in Mexico City (1963–68) and sil ...
. She is currently a member of
MujerArte A.C., a Mexican feminist art collective led by artist and social justice activist
Yan Maria Castro.
External links
Women Painters and the genocide of women in Ciudad Juarez, MexicoPage discussing the work of Morillas dealing with the murders of women in Ciudad Juarez on MujerArte A.C. website
Article by artist and cultural critic
Monica Mayer
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about the place of Morillas and other contemporary Mexican feminist artists in the tradition of Latin American female activist artists, originally published in El Universal
Maritza Morillas page on the MujerArte art collective websitePicture of Morillas and samples of her work (in Spanish)
1969 births
Living people
Mexican contemporary artists
Modern painters
Mexican feminists
20th-century Mexican painters
21st-century Mexican painters
20th-century Mexican women painters
21st-century Mexican women painters
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