Terezinha Soares

Teresinha Soares (1927 – 31 March 2026) was a Brazilian pop art artist who lived and worked in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. She produced art during the 1960s and 1970s and was best known for her erotic artwork that explored femininity and pushed back against Brazil's oppressive government. Soares lived and worked in Belo Horizonte. Her artwork was considered pop art, which depicts popular and mass culture, and Brazilian new figuration, a type of art that Soares was introduced to in either Rio de Janeiro or São Paulo. Her daughter Valeska Soares is a sculptor, multi-media and installation artist.

Education Soares was educated and trained in art, as she had studied at multiple universities and enrolled in several classes to better her art skills. She began her art training in 1965 at an art university in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. This installation was based on erotic drawings Soares made a year earlier titled Eurótica. 2018 – Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York

Unknown date (group exhibition) Box Form-Petite Galerie, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Honors and awards 1968 – Second grand prize at the Salão Municipal de Belas Artes in Belo Horizonte, Brazil 1971 – Acquisition prize at the 3rd Salão Nacional de Arte 1973 – Jury Exemption Award at the Salão Nacional de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Publications Soares created Eurótica, which was an artist's book consisting of line drawings. She also wrote a poem, which she read aloud at an exhibition in 1971 at the Galeria Petite in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.