Born in Santiago in 1916 and passed away in 2014. She walked inside and outside the painting, going through the mural, the sculpture, the installation or any other expression that was considered necessary at the time.
Born in Santiago in 1916 and passed away in 2014. She walked inside and outside the painting, going through the mural, the sculpture, the installation or any other expression that was considered necessary at the time.
He began his artistic training in 1938, when he took private painting classes with the teacher Pedro Reszka. In 1939 she entered the School of Fine Arts, where she was a student of Pablo Burchard and Jorge Caballero. In 1944 he studied mural painting with the artist Laureano Guevara and was his assistant in the realization of murals in the Ciudad del Niño in the commune of La Cisterna in Santiago.
In 1948 she worked as a Drawing Teacher at Dunalastair College; In 1950 he organized and created, together with other professors, an Academy of Plastic Arts in Providencia.
In 1951 she was appointed assistant to the Chair of Drawing and Painting at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Chile; In 1955 she taught a watercolor course at the University's Summer Season Schools, that same year she was appointed Assistant Professor of Drawing and Painting in the initiation courses of Fine Arts, being in 1957 Full-time Interim Professor, of the same chair.
In 1960, when she was already a nationally recognized artist, deserving of important prizes and distinctions, and with an extensive career as a professor, she received a scholarship from the French Government to study in Paris.
Between 1970 and 1972 she was commissioned by the University of Chile to continue her research and studies on kinetic art in Paris.
In 1975, together with other professors, he formed the Center for Kinetic Research at the School of Design at the University of Chile.