Lacy Duarte

Elvira Lacy Duarte Cardoso (15 September 1937 – 27 December 2015) was a Uruguayan visual artist.

Biography Elvira Lacy Duarte Cardoso was born in Mataojo, Salto Department in Uruguay on 15 September 1937 near the border with Brazil, a rural area that would come to characterize her artwork. In 1952, she moved to the City of Salto and two years later entered the Horacio Quiroga Association's Figari Workshop, where she attended classes with painters José Cziffery, himself trained in the Paris workshop of Henri Matisse, and .

In 1959 Duarte married fellow painter Aldo Peralta and had two children, Pablo and , who both also became painters. In 1962, this family moved to San Carlos in Maldonado Department where Duarte began teaching secondary education drawing classes and began to learn weaving. In 1975, the family fled from the civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay to Porto Alegre, Brazil, and left the Duarte Tapices tapestry workshop to local weavers. Aldo died in 1981, and Duarte returned Montevideo shortly thereafter and resumed painting. In 1986, she was selected to represent Uruguay at the 1987 Havana Biennial and her art would exhibit in the United States and Europe.

In 2012, Duarte exhibited Pensado Campo: Recurrencias de Lacy Duarte at the and Tiempo y Tiempo at the , both in Montevideo.

Lacy Duarte died in Montevideo, aged 78.

In 2005, she represented Uruaguay at the Venice Biennale with an installation that "reflected the neat poverty" of the Uruguayan countryside.