Painter and sculptor born in Montevideo (Uruguay) on 7th November of 1917.

Studied at the Fine Arts Circle with the painter José Cúneo and the sculptor Severino Pose, and at the Trades University with the sculptor Antonio Pose (1938-1942).

She's a drawing teacher at the Secondary Education and Artistic History and Culture  teacher at Architecture preparatories.

Obtain the Gallinal Scholarship of Secondary Education to travel for 2 years to foreign countries (1957) and attend to painting courses at the Municipal Museum of Amsterdam (Holland) and at the Modern Art and Prehistory y a los de Arte Moderno y Prehistoria dictations at the Louvre Museum of Paris (France) with the professors Bernard Dorival and André Varagnac.

Traveled again in 1966.  Co-founder of the Non Figurative Art Group (1952);  since 1963 carry out the art critical at Acción Newspaper.

Died in Montevideo (Uruguay) in 2015 at 98 years old.

Individual Exhibitions: 

Modern Art Museum of San Pablo (Brazil, 1956).

Modern Art Museum of Río de Janeiro (Brazil, 1957).

Ateneo Barcelonés (Spain, 1958).

Pan American Union, Washington D.C. (USA, 1966).

Lirolay Gallery of Buenos Aires (Argentina, 1967).

Foreign Collective Exhibitions: 

South American Painters, Sudamericana Gallery, New York (USA, 1961).

Integrated the uruguayan sending to San Pablo Biennials (Brazil, 1953 and 1957).

International Exhibition "Form and Space", University of Chile (Chile, 1960).

Integrated uruguayan sending to the XXXIII Venice Biennial (Italy, 1966), and with her husband the painter José Pedro Costigliolo, at Imagen Gallery of Buenos Aires (Argentina, 1970).

In Uruguay: 

Abstract Art Exhibition, Aesthetics and Plastical Arts Institute, Architecture Faculty.

Non-Figurative Art, Asociación Cristiana de Jóvenes (1952).

Abstract Painting and Sculpture, Salamanca Gallery (1954).

Salón Sureña, "19 Artists Today" (1955).

"6 Modern Painters", Humanities and Sciences Faculty.

"De Blanes a nuestros días" (1961).

Uruguayan Modern Painting, Jockey Club of Montevideo.

Fine Arts Circle (1964), National and Municipal Contests.

Prizes: 

2nd Prize at Salón Sureña (1955); 

Honour Prize at the VI Biennial of San Pablo (Brazil, 1957).

In National Contests: 

3th Prize, Bronze Medal for her gouache "Panneau principal (project) Boite "El Cascabel" (XVII National Arts Contest, 1953); 

2nd Prize, Silver Medal for her gouache "Composition" (XIX Contest of 1955); 

"Shell of Uruguay Ltd." Prize, Bronze Medal for her gouache "Forms" (XXIV Contest of 1960); 

1st  Prize, GOLD MEDAL for her "Watercolor 108" (XXV Contest of 1961); 

Republic of Uruguay Bank Prize, Bronze Medal for her patinal plaster "Frontal Sculpture" (XXVI Contest of 1962); 

Cinzano Uruguay S.A. Prize, Bronze Medal for her tempera "White Structure" (XXVII Contest of 1963); 

Senators Chamber Prize, Bronze Medal for her vinilic "Composition with Red" (XXVIII Contest of 1964); 

Republic of Uruguay Bank Prize, Bronze Medal for her acylic painting "Capricorn XXV" (XXIX Contest of 1965); 

Prize for free subject, GOLD MEDAL for her ink "Composition" (XXX Contest of 1966); 

GREAT PAINTING PRIZE for her acrylic "17th July Composition" (XXXII Contest of 1967); 

Acquisition Prize at the XXXIII and XXXIV National Contests of 1969 and 1970, for her works "White and Black Number 5" and "Forms 1970".

In Municipal Contests: 

Acquisition Prizes for her piroxiline lac "Ortogonal Composition" at the IX Contest of 1957, 

Oil "Color and Form" at the XII Contest of 1960, 

Watercolor "Painting 1961" at the XIII Contest of 1961,

Tempera "Painting Number 14" at the XIV Contest of 1962,

Acrylic and ink "Capricorn Number 333" at the XV Contest of 1967,

Acrylic "Córdoba XVIII" at the XVI Contest of 1968,

Acrylic "Córdoba 299" at the XVIII Contest of 1970.

Her works are at National and Municipal Fine Arts Museums (Uruguay), Modern Art Museum of San Pablo (Brazil), Modern Art Museum of Río de Janeiro (Brazil), Modern Art Museum of Madrid (Spain) and at private collections around the world.