Short Bio
Frida Kahlo, born July 6, 1907, in Coyoacán, Mexico City, Mexico, and passing on July 13, 1954, in her childhood home, La Casa Azul, in Coyoacán, was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico.
Drawing on her personal experiences, including her marriage to Diego Rivera, her numerous operations, and her prolonged immobilization due to a severe bus accident, Kahlo's work is characterized by its raw, honest exploration of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society.
Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. Embedded with symbols reflecting her physical and psychological wounds, Kahlo's art boldly addressed taboo subjects at the time, making her a feminist icon and a pioneer of the surrealist movement, although she herself claimed, "I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality."
