Ana Maria Pacheco

Ana Maria Pacheco is a sculptor, painter and printmaker born in Brazil in 1943. Following Degrees in both Art and Music she taught and lectured for several years at Universities in Goias before coming to England on a British Council Scholarship to the Slade School of Fine Art, London. Since 1973 she has lived and worked in England.

Following two significant group exhibitions – the ICA in 1980 (Women’s Images of Men) and the Hayward Annual Drawing Show in 1982 – her first important one person show took place at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, in 1983. Since 1983 she has exhibited widely, two UK tours taking her work to a number of venues including the Camden Arts Centre, London and the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.