Anna Maria Maiolino

Anna Maria Maiolino (born May 20, 1942) is a Brazilian contemporary artist. where she later attended Escuela Nacional Cristobal Rojas in 1958. In 1960, she and her family moved to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Here, she attended painting and woodcut courses at Escola Nacional de Belas Artes During these years her paintings were viewed as resistances to the Brazilian military regime, as well as the country's growing urban inequalities. After becoming a Brazilian citizen, she moved to New York in 1968 to focus more on Minimalism and Conceptualism artwork; during this time she created works that influenced interaction between the object and the viewer. The same year, she won the MASP Mercedes-Benz Prize for Visual Arts 2012 for Best Contemporary Artist of the Year, which granted her a solo exhibition at MASP.

Publications Anna Maria Maiolino, M Catherine de Zegher; Drawing Center (New York, N.Y.); Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo.; Paço Imperial do Rio de Janeiro New York : Drawing Center, 2002. Anna Maria Maiolino : order and subjectivity, Asbury, Michael. Nicosia, Cyprus : Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art, 2009.