This is a list of women artists who were born in

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or whose artwork is closely associated with that country.

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* Sofia Achaval de Montaigu (fl 2000s), fashion designer * Eileen Agar (1899–1991), Argentine-born British painter * Elizabeth Aro, contemporary interdisciplinary artist

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* Fabiana Barreda (born 1967), artist *

Eugenia Belin Sarmiento Eugenia Belín Sarmiento (December 29, 1860, San Juan, Argentina - August 2, 1952, Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an Argentinean painter and author. Her works were featured in various international shows, among them the first Exposición Anual de ...

(1860–1952), painter *

Claudia Bernardi Claudia Bernardi (born 1955) is an Argentine artist who works in the fields of art, human rights and social justice, combining installation, sculpture, painting and printmaking. She has worked with communities that have suffered state terror, viol ...

(born 1955), multimedia artist *

Emilia Bertolé Emilia Bertolé or Ignacio Bertolé (1896–1949) was an Argentinian poet and painter. Life Bertolé was born in Rosario on 21 June 1896. She studied with the Italian teacher Mateo Casella at the Institute of Fine Arts "Doménico Morelli". S ...

(1896–1949), painter and poet *

Norma Bessouet Norma Bessouet (October 15, 1940 – 11 June 2018) was an Argentine painter and sculptor. Bessouet's work focused primarily around portraits, domesticity and the female nude. Her paintings were abstract in their style and she also created equal ...

(1940–2018), painter *

Norah Borges Leonor Fanny "Norah" Borges Acevedo (March 4, 1901 – July 20, 1998), was a visual artist and art critic, member of the Florida group, and sister of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges. Early life and source of nickname She was the daught ...

(1901–1998), illustrator and painter *

Maitena Burundarena Maitena Burundarena (Buenos Aires, May 19, 1962), better known as Maitena, is an Argentine cartoonist. Early works Maitena drew erotic strips for several European publications, for example ''Makoki'', in Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is ...

(born 1962), cartoonist *

Dina Bursztyn Dina Bursztyn (born 1948) is an Argentine writer and visual artist whose works have been exhibited in Art museum, galleries, museums and public spaces throughout America and abroad. Personal life Bursztyn was born and raised in Argentina. She m ...

(born 1948), writer and visual artist

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Delia Cancela Delia Cancela (born 1940, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine pop artist and fashion designer. She has lived in Argentina, New York, London and Paris, and exhibited internationally. Retrospective exhibitions of her work and her collaborations with Pabl ...

(born 1940), fashion designer * Alicia Candiani (born 1953), mixed media *

Leonor Cecotto Leonor Cecotto (died 8 May 1982, Asunción, Paraguay) was a 20th-century Latin American painter and engraver. Born in Argentina, she resided in Paraguay for the majority of her life, eventually becoming a prominent artist in the latter country. ...

(died 1982), painter, engraver * Jazmín Chebar (born 1973), fashion designer *

Fenia Chertkoff Fenia Chertkoff de Repetto (7 October 1869 – 31 May 1927) was a Russian-born Argentine feminist, intellectual, educator, political activist, and sculptor. She was married to Nicolás Repetto, an Argentine physician and leader of the Socialist ...

(1869–1927), sculptor *

Milagros Correch Milagros Correch (born 1991, Villa Urquiza, Buenos Aires), better known as Milu Correch, is an Argentine painter and muralist recognized internationally for her large scale murals and illustrations. Her work can be found in cities in Argentina and ...

(born 1991), painter, muralist *

Alicia Creus Alicia Creus (born 1939) is an Argentine artist who currently resides in the United States. She is known for using unusual media such as fabric and lace to create her pieces. Biography Alicia Creus was born in 1939 in La Plata, Argentina. She g ...

(born 1939), visual artist

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Mirtha Dermisache Mirtha Dermisache (21 February 1940 – 5 January 2012) was an Argentine artist whose works of asemic writing have been published and exhibited internationally at venues including the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and MACBA in Barcelona, a ...

(1940–2012), asemic writing *

Noemí Di Benedetto Noemí Di Benedetto (1930–2010) was an Argentine painter and visual artist with a long career. She formed part of the Informalism group in Argentina. Career Di Benedetto studied at the Manuel Belgrano and Prilidiano Pueyrredón National Sch ...

(1930–2010), painting and sculpture

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Elizabeth Eichhorn Elizabeth Eichhorn (born 1957, Junín, Buenos Aires Province) is an Argentine sculptor and draftsman. She has lived in Mar del Plata from an early age. Eichhorn is a descendant of Volga Germans The Volga Germans (german: Wolgadeutsche, ), r ...

(born 1957), sculptor

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Rosa Faccaro Rosa Faccaro (3 July 1931 – 22 January 2019) was an Argentine art critic, painter and university teacher who specialised in contemporary art, contemporary, Pre-Columbian art, Pre-Columbian and Textile arts, textile art. She received several awar ...

(1931–2019), painter and educator *

Sara Facio Sara Facio (born 18 April 1932) is an Argentine photographer. She is best known for having photographed, along with Alicia D'Amico, various cultural personalities, including Argentine writers Julio Cortázar, María Elena Walsh and Alejandr ...

(born 1932), photographer *

Leonor Fini Leonor Fini (30 August 1907 – 18 January 1996) was an Argentinian born Italian surrealist painter, designer, illustrator, and author, known for her depictions of powerful and erotic women. Early life Fini was born in Buenos Aires, Argentin ...

(1907–1996), painter, illustrator and author *

Raquel Forner Raquel Forner (1902–1988) was an Argentine painter known for her expressionist works. Life Forner was born in Buenos Aires in 1902. Her father was Spanish by nationality and her mother was an Argentine of Spanish descent. As a result of fr ...

(1902–1988), expressionist painter *

Magda Frank Magda Frank Fischer (20 July 1914 – 23 June 2010) was a Hungarian Argentines, Hungarian-Argentine sculptor. Biography She was born in Cluj-Napoca, Kolozsvár, Transylvania, which at that time belonged to Hungary but in 1918, was incorporat ...

(1914–2010), Hungarian-born sculptor, moved to Argentina

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Noemí Gerstein Noemí Gerstein (November 10, 1910 – June 14, 1996) was an Argentina, Argentine sculptor, illustrator and plastic artist. Noemí Gerstein was born November 10, 1910, in Buenos Aires, where she continued to live and work. In 1934, she began tr ...

(1908–1996), sculptor and illustrator *

Sarah Grilo Sarah (born Sarai) is a biblical matriarch and prophetess, a major figure in Abrahamic religions. While different Abrahamic faiths portray her differently, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all depict her character similarly, as that of a pio ...

(1919–2007), painter

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* Annemarie Heinrich (1912–2005), photographer * Gaby Herbstein (born 1969), photographer * Ana Maria Hernando (born 1959), visual artist

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Isabel Iacona Isabel Iacona (born Buenos Aires, 1955) is an Argentine artist known for her detailed paintings of enlarged flowers and pop portraits of people and pets. She uses several mediums: oil on canvas, mixed techniques, watercolors and drawings. Her ...

(born 1955), painter * Isol (born 1972), illustrator

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* Alexandra Kehayoglou (born 1981), textile artist * Lydia Kindermann (1892–1953), Polish-born opera singer

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* Agi Lamm (1914–1996), Hungarian-Argentinian illustrator *

Adriana Lestido Adriana Lestido (born 1955) is an Argentine photographer. Her black-and-white photographs document the often difficult place of women in society. Biography Adriana Lestido was born in 1955 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She lives in Buenos Aires a ...

(born 1955), photographer * Cecilia Lueza (born 1971), painter and sculptor *

Juana Lumerman Juana Lumerman (1905 in Buenos Aires, Argentina – 1982) was a visual artist who painted in both figurative and abstract styles. Lumerman graduated with a degree in painting in 1935 from the National Academy of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires. Lum ...

(1905–1982), painter * Laura Messing (born 1953), photographer and sculptor

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Liliana Maresca Liliana Maresca (May 8, 1951 – November 13, 1994) was an Argentine artist. Her works cover a variety of styles including sculpture, painting, graphic montages art objects and installations. She was a prominent artist in the period following the ...

(1951–1994), sculptor and painter *

Rebeca Mendoza Rebeca Mendoza (Buenos Aires, October 24, 1967) is an Argentine plastic artist. Biography Formal education Rebeca Mendoza was born in Buenos Aires on October 24, 1967. She is a contemporary artist. At the age of six she started painting ...

(born 1967), abstract painter *

Marta Minujín Marta Minujín (born 1943) is an Argentine conceptual and performance artist. Life and work Marta Minujín was born in the San Telmo neighborhood of Buenos Aires. Her father was a Jewish physician and her mother a housewife of Spanish de ...

(born 1943), conceptual and performance artist *

Lola Mora Dolores Candelaria Mora Vega (November 17, 1866 – June 7, 1936) known professionally as Lola Mora, was a sculptor born in San Miguel de Tucumán, in Argentina. She is known today as a rebel and a pioneer of women in her artistic field. Early ...

(1866–1936), sculptor

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Marie Orensanz Mari Nalte Orensanz (born 12 September 1936) is an Argentine artist. Her artwork examines the integration of thought and matter as a methodology to obtain a social consciousness. Orensanz's experience of Argentina's "Dirty War" has influenced he ...

(born 1936), conceptual artist

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Luna Paiva Luna Paiva (born 1980) is an Argentine visual artist. Biography and work Luna Paiva was born in Paris, the daughter of photographer Rolando Paiva (1942-2003) and art dealer Teresa Anchorena. She studied art history and archaeology at Paris-Sorb ...

(born 1980), visual artist *

Raquel Partnoy Raquel Partnoy (born 1932 in Rosario, Santa Fe) is an Argentine painter, poet, and essayist. Biography She studied at an art school in that city but it was after she got married and moved to the southern port city of Bahía Blanca in 1954, that ...

(born 1932), painter *

Alicia Penalba Alicia Penalba (August 9, 1913 – November 4, 1982) was an Argentine sculptor, tapestry designer, and weaver. Biography Penalba was born in San Pedro, Buenos Aires Province in 1913. She originally sought a career in drawing and painting. How ...

(1913–1982), sculptor, tapestry designer and weaver *

Amalia Pica Amalia Pica (born 1978 in Neuquén, Argentina) is a London-based Argentinian artist who explores metaphor, communication, and civic participation through sculptures, installations, photographs, projections, live performances, and drawings. Early ...

(born 1978), multimedia artist *

Liliana Porter Liliana Porter (born 1941) is a contemporary artist working in a wide variety of media, including photography, printmaking, painting, drawing, installation, video, theater, and public art. Education and teaching experience Porter was born in B ...

(born 1941), photographer, printmaker, installation and video artist *

Lidy Prati Lidia "Lidy" Elena Prati (1921–2008) was an Argentine painter who was known for her abstract, geometric paintings. Her artwork called into question representational art and was influential in defining the concrete art movement in Latin America ...

(1921–2008), painter *

Naomi Preizler Naomi Preizler (born October 12, 1990) is an Argentine fashion model and artist, known for her "longilinear silhouette, long blonde hair and androgynous face." Career Although discovered at age 14 by a model scout, Preizler did not begin her in ...

(born 1990), illustrator and photographer *

Elena Presser Elena Presser (born November 3, 1940) is an Argentine artist who focuses on keyboard pieces, specifically on Johann Sebastian Bach's ''Goldberg Variations''. Her artwork is her interpretation of classical music and is defined with shapes and symb ...

(born 1940), artist * Elisa Pritzker (born 1955), installation artist *

Dalila Puzzovio Dalila Puzzovio ( born 1 January 1943 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a Latin American visual artist and fashion designer active during the 1960s. Puzzovio works in the art forms of pop, happening, and conceptual art.Fajardo-Hill, C., Giunta, A. ...

(born 1943), visual artist, fashion designer

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* Josefina Robirosa (1932–2022), painter * Mika Rottenberg (born 1976), video artist

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Analia Saban Analia Saban (born 1980) is a contemporary conceptual artist that was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, but is currently living in Los Angeles, California. Her work takes traditional artistic media such as drawing, painting and sculpture and push ...

(born 1980), illustrator, painter and sculptor *

Ana Sacerdote Ana Sacerdote (25 September 1925 – 2019) was an Italian-born Argentine abstract artist who lived in Buenos Aires. Sacerdote was born in Rome, Italy on 25 September 1925. She graduated from the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Puey ...

(1925–2019), painter, video and computer artist * Procesa del Carmen Sarmiento (1818–1899), painter *

Elsa Serrano Elsa Romio de Serrano (13 July 1941-16 September 2020), commonly known as Elsa Serrano, was an Italian-born Argentine fashion designer. Biography Serrano was born as Elsa Romio in Corigliano Calabro, province of Cosenza, Calabria, Italy on 13 J ...

(1941–2020), Italian-born Argentine fashion designer *

María Simón María Simón Padrós (1922 – 5 July 2009) was an Argentine sculptor. Biography Simón was born in Aguilares, Tucumán in 1922. Her father, John Simon Padrós, was an engineer, a prominent politician and industrialist; her mother was Emili ...

(1922–2009), sculptor * Meli Valdés Sozzani (born 1977), painter * Grete Stern (1904–1999), photographer

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Mirta Toledo Mirta Toledo (born 1952) is an Argentine artist (painter, sculptor, print maker and writer), that promotes diversity through her artwork. Personal life Mirta Toledo was born in the Almagro neighborhood of Buenos Aires. She is the oldest daught ...

(born 1952), painter, illustrator and sculptor *

Silvia Torras Silvia Torras (1936–1970) was a Spanish-born Argentine informalist painter. Torras became a notable artist in the Argentine informalism movement and showed her work in several major exhibits during the short period she painted. Life Torra ...

(1936–1970), painter

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* Luciana Val (born 1971), photographer * Meli Valdés Sozzani (born 1977), painter

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Julia Wernicke Julia Wernicke (August 26, 1860 – October 25, 1932) was a painter and engraver from Argentina. She is known as the first animalist painter from Argentina, and was unique at the time in incorporating exotic animals into her paintings. She pa ...

(1860–1932), painter and engraver

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María Rosa Yorio María Rosa Yorio (born August 28, 1954 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine painter, singer, songwriter, instructor and band leader. Early work Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina; María Rosa started doing vocals with legendary band Sui Generis and ...

(born 1954), painter

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Pilar Zeta Pilar Zeta is an Argentine multimedia artist, graphic designer, and creative director currently residing in the United States. She is best known for her surrealist album covers, mystical-futurism artwork and long-time partnership with British roc ...

(fl 2009), multimedia artist

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