Paula Rego

Paula Rego is one of the most prominent names in European art. Born in Portugal in 1935, she studied at Slade School of Fine Arts, in London, where he resided at the time of his death at age 87, on June 6, 2022.
She was the first Associate Artist of National Gallery and received the title of Doctor. honoris causa She graduated from the universities of St. Andrews, East Anglia, Rhode Island School of Design, The London Institute, Oxford, Roehampton, and Cambridge. She was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Saint James of the Sword by the President of the Republic in 2005 and appointed... Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire by the Queen of the United Kingdom in 2010, shortly after the opening of the Paula Rego House of Stories in Cascais, a new museum designed by Eduardo Souto de Moura.
Retrospectives and exhibitions of Paula Rego's work have been held at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon and Paris; at the Serralves House, Porto; at the Tate Gallery Liverpool; at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London; at the University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA; at the Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal; at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut; at Tate Britain; at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC; at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico; and at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil.
A painter of “stories,” Paula Rego’s characters play a variety of roles and portray unsettling tensions beneath the surface. Her work—large pastel paintings, sharply drawn etchings, and elaborate lithographs—expresses an extraordinary diversity of emotions and experiences.