Modern Art

Widely regarded as one of Latin America’s most influential art figures, Alejandro Obregón (1920–1992) was a Colombian painter of modern art. Obregón’s work …

Frank Bowling (b. 1934) is a Guyanese-British artist known for his groundbreaking contributions to abstract painting. Born in Bartica, Guyana (then British Guiana) …

Mauricio Mejía was born in San Salvador, El Salvador in 1976. He is a painter and sculptor who often uses found objects in his works to create a dialogue

Julia Díaz was born in San Salvador, El Salvador, in 1946 and passed away in 1988. She was a painter and printmaker associated with the Nueva Sensibilidad

Fernando Llort was born in San Salvador, El Salvador, in 1949 and passed away in 2018. He was a painter and ceramicist known for his colorful and folk-inspired works.

He was a painter and muralist known for his politically charged works, which often criticized the political and social injustices in El Salvador. His most famous work

is a painter, sculptor, and cultural figure from Barbados, known for his contributions to the development of Barbadian art and culture, as well as his works

was a painter, sculptor, and cultural activist from Barbados, known for his contributions to the development of Rastafarian culture in Barbados and for his works

is a painter and sculptor from Barbados, known for his works exploring the themes of identity, spirituality, and social justice in the context of Barbadian

is a painter and printmaker from Barbados, known for her works exploring the themes of nature, culture, and history in the context of Barbados

is a painter and mixed media artist from Barbados, known for her works exploring the themes of identity, memory, and the natural environment

is a painter and printmaker from the Bahamas, known for his works exploring the themes of nature, spirituality, and cultural heritage in the context

is a painter and mixed media artist from the Bahamas, known for his works exploring the themes of identity, history, and social justice in the context

was a painter and muralist from the Bahamas, best known for his works exploring the themes of identity and representation in the context of Bahamian

is a sculptor and cultural activist from the Bahamas, known for his contributions to the development of Bahamian art and culture, as well as his works

was a self-taught painter from the Bahamas known for his colorful and playful depictions of everyday life and cultural traditions in the country. His works

Guatemalan painter, sculptor, illustrator, and writer. Quiroa studied in the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas in Guatemala City between 1953 and 1960

José Luis Álvarez was considered the last master of light. Alvarez has stood out for shading the luminous contrast of the shadows, creating optical

Elmar (Rene)Rojas mainly worked in watercolors and oils in a style at once vigorous and very delicate, with a fine sense of color, touching on important contemporary

He worked in various media, favoring new materials and bold geometric forms. Born in Guatemala City on December 5, 1939, painter, sculptor

Alejandro was a classic painter of living flowers, children, patios, gardens, seascapes, and landscapes. He was born in Nicaragua and obtained a gold

The Salvadoran painter Benjamín Cañas is an internationally recognized artist for using the neo-figurative technique and the strategies of magical

Honduran artist who has received international recognition for his paintings, graduated with honors from the National School of Fine Studies at the

Puerto Rico has a rich and vibrant legacy of modernist art. While many artists have risen to prominence in this movement, the work of Myrna Báez

Haitian painter. Born in Port-au-Prince, he left for New York in 1957. Early paintings were influenced by Abstract Expressionism. However, for Télémaque,

Haitian painter. He is the most famous of his country’s remarkable crop of naive painters, but he did not achieve recognition until the final years of his life.

Jamaican sculptor, born Edna Swithenbank in Bournemouth, the daughter of an English clergyman and a Jamaican mother. Edna Manley’s sculpture to some

Colombian sculptor. He was born in Popayán and studied at the School of Fine Arts, California, 1938–43. His career was spent mainly in Bogotá, but

Mexican painter and art administrator. He was an ardent nationalist and a pioneer of the 20th-century renaissance of his county’s art—chapter 1 of MacKinley

Mexican painter, one of the trio of muralists (with Orozco and Rivera) who dominated 20th-century Mexican art. He was born in Chihuahua, the son of

Cundo Bermúdez was a Cuban painter. In 1926, Bermudez was admitted at the ‘Institute of Havana,’ and in 1930 enrolled at the renowned Escuela Nacional

Brazilian painter of Italian descent. He was born at Brodósqui and studied at the National School of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro, 1918–21. In 1928 he was

Arturo Borda Gozálvez was painter, portraitist, landscape painter, writer and Bolivian activist. His paintings are framed in the symbolic movement prevai-

Ana Mendieta was born in Havana but was sent away with her sister as a political refugee in 1961 after her father fell out with the Castro regime. She gradua-

Haitian naive painter, born into a poor family in Port-au-Prince. He was encouraged by Hector Hyppolite, who was a neighbour, and in 1946 he began

Roberto Mamani Mamani is an Aymara artist from Bolivia. His work is significant in its use of Aymara indigenous tradition and symbols. His art has been

Pedro Barrail works as an artist, designer, and architect. He was born in Paraguay and studied in Miami, and his work combines the traditional indigenous

Roberto Matta came from a wealthy family and was of Spanish and Basque descent. He studied at the Colegio del Sagrado Corazón (Sacred Heart college)

Tarsila do Amaral was a student of Pedro Alexandrino and M. E. Renard. She worked in Paris from 1920 to 1923, along with Lhote and Léger, discovering

After a brief period at the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro in Havana from 1918 to 1923, Lam went to Spain and remained there from

Colombian sculptor and installation artist, born in Bogotá where she lives and works. Her art reflects the political climate of her country, which has been

Félix González-Torres was a Cuban-born American visual artist. González-Torres’s openly gay sexual orientation is often seen as influential in his work

Mexican artist, born in Jalaga. His work combines elements of performance, sculpture, drawing, and installation, and is rooted in paradox, games play,

Scottish artist and poet, born in Nassau, Bahamas, of Scottish parents. His father had gained and lost a fortune by smuggling. He studied briefly at Glasgow

American sculptor, born in the Bahamas. She has made sculpture out of food. Gnaw (1992, MoMA, New York) consists of three 600 pound cubes of lard

Juan Bustillos is the country’s best contemporary sculptor for his seemingly endless collection of life-size sculpted animals made from timber

American artist, born in Panama. His practice has been associated with appropriation. He came to attention in the early 1980s with photographs blown up

Argentine painter, born at La Plata. From 1913 to 1923 he studied and worked in Europe, taking part in the Futurist movement in Italy, and experimenting

Argentine sculptor and printmaker, born in Buenos Aires. She moved to Paris in 1948 and trained in the studio of Zadkine after destroying almost all her

Uruguayan painter, born and mainly active in Montevideo. He had a versatile and distinguished career as a lawyer, politician, writer, and editor (he founded

Oswaldo Guayasamín was an Ecuadorian artist whose work is characterized by its Cubist-styled depictions of Latin American people. The artist focused

Italian painter, sculptor, and ceramicist, born in Argentina, the son of an Italian sculptor, Luigi Fontana, and an Argentinian mother. In 1905 his family

Argentinian sculptor and Kinetic artist. He was born in Košice, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia), as Fernando Fallik and moved to Argentina with his parents

Uruguayan painter and art theorist, born in Montevideo. Most of his life was spent in Spain, to which he moved with his family in 1891 (his mother was

Peruvian sculptor, born in Lima, where he studied at the National School of Fine Arts. Between 1948 and 1952 he lived in Europe, exhibiting in Florence

Zilia Sánchez is a Puerto Rico-based Cuban artist. She started her career as a set designer and an abstract painter for radical theatre groups in cuba

Venezuelan Kinetic artist, active mainly in Paris. He was born in Ciudad Bolívar and in 1942–7 he studied at the School of Fine and Applied Arts in Caracas

Adrián Villar Rojas (born 1980 in Rosario, Argentina) is a sculptor known for his elaborate, fantastical works which explore notions of the Anthropocene

Teresa Burga is a multimedia artist whose conceptualist pieces from the late 1960s and 1970s position her as a precursor of media art, technology-

Frida Kahlo was Hispano-Indian on her mother’s side and German on her father’s. She met Diego Rivera when he was painting a mural at the Escuela

Solange Pessoa (born 1961, Ferros), this substantial volume is also the artist’s most comprehensive to date. Pessoa’s sculptural work, which often

Rodrigo Matheus is a Brazilian artist who uses a variety of materials and media, as objects and materials common to the corporate world and also appro

Paz Errázuriz is a Chilean photographer. Errazuriz documented marginalized communities such as sex workers, psychiatric patients and circus performers

From 1938 to 1949, Botero pursued his primary- and secondary-level studies in Medellín. He began to exhibit and to sell drawings to newspapers from 1948.

Mónica Mayer is a feminist Mexican artist, activist and art critic whose work includes performance, digital graphics, drawing, photography, and art

Marta Minujín is an Argentine conceptual and performance artist. Minujín began her career in Paris. She then moved to New York, where she met Andy

María Izquierdo is known for being the first Mexican woman to have her artwork exhibited in the United States. She committed both her life and her career

Lygia Pape fue una grabadora, escultora, pintora, cineasta, profesora y artista multimedia brasileña.​ Se la reconoce dentro del llamado Arte concre-

Lygia Pimentel Lins, better known as Lygia Clark, was a Brazilian artist is best known for her painting and installation work. She was often associated

Jose Dávila (born 1974, Guadalajara) is a trained architect who’s work reflects on the failure of utopian, modernist architectural principles in his assemblages

Francisco Amighetti was a Costa Rican painter. In addition to his paintings, Amighetti also produced wood engravings, poetry and works of art

The earliest artistic influence on Diego Rivera was the Madrid academy. Rivera, however, quickly embraced other styles such as Impressionism, Divisionism.

Firelei Báez (born 1981, Santiago de los Caballeros) makes intricate works on paper and canvas as well as large scale sculpture. Through a convergence

Guatemalan painter, active mainly in Mexico. In 1910–14 he studied in Paris under van Dongen, meeting Modigliani, Picasso, and other members of the avant-

Venezuelan painter and Kinetic artist, resident in Paris since 1960. In 1960 he settled in Paris, where he became friendly with other Latin American artist

Beatriz González is a painter, sculptor, critic, curator, art historian, and is considered one of the founders of what is known today as Modern Colombian Art.

Venezuelan painter, born in Caracas. Reverón was a strange character but also ‘the best Venezuelan painter of the first half of the century’ (Edward Lucie-

Venezuelan painter, sculptor, administrator, and writer, regarded as one of his country’s leading artists. He was born at El Manteco, Bolivar State, and

Abraham Cruzvillegas (born 1968, Mexico City) is a visual artist. He is best known for his work with found objects, and particularly his ongoing “Autoconstrucción”

Stefan Brüggemann is a Mexican artist working in a wide variety of artistic disciplines. Examples of Brüggemann’s conceptual work are his Puddle Paintings

Cuban painter and caricaturist. He graduated from the Academia de Alejandro in Havana in 1920 and lived in Paris from 1927 to 1929. There he studied at

Livio Abramo brazilian printmaker, painter and teacher of expressionism. He abandoned painting for wood-engraving, in 1926. He produced series

Carl Abrahams a jamaican painter. He began his career as a cartoonist for various local periodicals. In 1937, he went to the classes Institute of Jamaica.