OLGA DE AMARAL COLOMBIAN, b. 1932

Olga de Amaral is a major figure in the development of post-war Latin American abstraction, known primarily for her large scale textile works often in gold leaf and silver. 

Amaral founded and directed the textiles department at the Universidad de los Andes (University of the Andes) in Bogotá in 1965. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1973, and in 2005 was appointed "Visionary Artist" by the Museum of Art and Design in New York. In 2008, she was honorary Co-Chair for the benefit of the Multicultural Audience Development Initiative, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Amaral has exhibited globally and is held in the collections of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan; the De Young Museum, San Francisco; the Museum Bellerive, Zürich; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Renwick Gallery of the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. and many others.