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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

Joaquín Torres García

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

Joaquín Roca Rey

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

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

Jesús Rafael Soto

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

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

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

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

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

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