Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (b. 1960)

Beatriz Milhazes

O Egoísta, 1999

Acrylic on canvas
© Beatriz Milhazes; courtesy Pace Gallery. Photo by Ian Reeves.

© Beatriz Milhazes. Photo by Vincente de Paulo

“Color gives balance, harmony, structure. It’s life and nature. It is pure sensibility, poetry, imagination, abstraction, and joy. My selection of colors is often based on contrast. I’m a color observer, a color researcher.”

—Beatriz Milhazes