Beatriz Milhazes

b. 1960, Rio de Janeiro; lives in Rio de Janeiro

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Beatriz Milhazes is a Brazilian artist. She is known for her work juxtaposing Brazilian cultural imagery and references to western Modernist painting. Milhazes is a Brazilian-born collage artist and painter known for her large-scale works and vibrant colors. She has been called “Brazil’s most successful contemporary painter.”

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Carmen Herrera. Alba, 2014.
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The Gift of Art

For the presentation of the museum’s permanent collection during our 35th anniversary year, this understanding of art was conflated conceptually with the celebration of donations of art that have been made to the museum during the last several decades. The artworks represented outstanding examples of the works that have been gifted to the museum since it first…