Rosa Faccaro

Rosa Faccaro (3 July 1931 – 22 January 2019) was an Argentine art critic, painter and university teacher who specialised in contemporary, Pre-Columbian and textile art. She received several awards for her work, was curator of multiple art exhibitions and was a jury member of many international and national awards. Faccaro collaborated with the artistic section of the newspaper Clarín from 1979 to 2000.

Early life and education Rosa Faccaro was born in Argentina on 3 July 1931. Faccaro was educated at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes from 1950 to 1958 and later continued her education by attending the National University of Saint Anthony the Abbot in Cuzco, in Cusco, Peru between 1961 and 1965. She educated at the Faculty of Architecture of the National University of Cusco, in Cusco, Peru during 1968 and subsequently at the National School of Fine Arts Prilidiano Pueyrredon from 1965 to 1985. and organised the First Conference of Contemporary Argentine Art that same year. On 22 January 2019, Faccaro died at her home in the Palermo neighbourhood of the city of Buenos Aires. She was buried at O'Higgins 2842 in the neighbourhood of Belgrano the following day.

Faccaro's daughter described her mother as a "fighter to the end for Argentine art, women, feminism and social justice" and her word was always "conduct, honour and love for that force that has the art of transmuting the material into spirit".