Born: October 23, 1920 (Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil); Death: April 25, 1988 (Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Lygia Clark trained in Rio de Janeiro and Paris from late 1940s to mid-1950s and was a leading abstract artist at the forefront of the Neo-Concretist movement in Brazil, fostering the active participation of spectators through her works. From the late 1960s through the 1970s she created a series of unconventional artworks in parallel to a lengthy psychoanalytic therapy, leading her to develop a series of therapeutic propositions grounded in art. Clark has become a major reference for contemporary artists dealing with the limits of conventional forms of art.