MARÍA BRITO

MARÍA BRITO was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1947 and arrived in the United States in 1961 in a program for
Cuban children. She now lives in Miami. Her work has been described as the exploration of “the private in
a form reminiscent of the small theatre of the Baroque.” Brito works in mixed media, usually painting and sculpture, sometimes combined with wall pieces or as part of an installation. Her work is permanently installed in the Olympic Sculpture Park in Seoul, Korea, and is in the Smithsonian Institution collection. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

Writer: Juan A. Martinez is Associate Professor in the Department of Art & Art History at Florida International University. He is the author of Cuban Art and National Identity: The Vanguardia Painters, 1927-1950 (University of Florida Press, 1994).