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Gerardo Murillo

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

Edgar Negret

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

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,

Gyula Košice

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

Lucio Fontana

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

Oswaldo Guayasamín

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

Pedro Figari

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

Mónica Mayer

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