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Anna Bella Geiger (b. 1933, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a sculptor, painter, printmaker, draftsman, intermedia artist, and educator. With a background in Anglo-Germanic language and literature, she began her artistic studies in the 1950s in the studio of Fayga Ostrower (1920–2001). In 1954, she lived in New York, where she attended art history classes taught by Hannah Levy at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) and audited courses at New York University. She returned to Brazil the following year. Between 1960 and 1965, she participated in the metal engraving workshop at the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro (MAM Rio), where she began teaching three years later.

In 1969, once again in New York, she taught at Columbia University, returning to Rio de Janeiro in 1970. In 1982, she was awarded a fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in New York. In 1987, she co-authored the book Abstracionismo Geométrico e Informal: a vanguarda brasileira nos anos cinquenta [Geometric and Informal Abstraction: The Brazilian Avant-Garde in the Fifties] with Fernando Cocchiarale (b. 1951). Her oeuvre is marked by the use of diverse mediums and the exploration of new materials and supports. During the 1970s, her production took on an experimental character, encompassing photomontage, photogravure, xerography, video, and Super-8. She has also dedicated herself to painting since the 1980s.

Beginning in the 1990s, she began employing novel materials to produce cutout cartographic forms in metal, housed within iron boxes or drawers filled with encaustic. Her works occupy the threshold between painting, object, and printmaking.

Source: Itaú Cultural