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Myrna Báez

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

Wilson Bigaud

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

Ana Mendieta

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-

Cundo Bermúdez

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

Edna Manley

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

Hector Hyppolite

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.

Hervé Télémaque

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

Zilia Sánchez

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

Wifredo Lam

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

Ian Hamilton Finlay

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