Shirley Paes Leme

Shirley Paes Leme Paiva Arantes (born 1955) is a Brazilian sculptor, printmaker, designer and teacher. Her artwork has been shown in Brazil, and internationally.

Biography Shirley Paes Leme was born in 1955 in Cachoeira Dourada, Goiás, Brazil. She also began her master's degree at the University of Arizona, in Tucson;

Paes Leme taught art classes in her early career at the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU) from 1979 to 1982. She held her first solo exhibition in 1981, at the Cultural Foundation of the Federal District, Brasília. In 1992, Paes Leme's work was included in the Biennale Internationale de Lausanne, an international contemporary textile exhibition in Lausanne, Switzerland.