(b. Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1920; d. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1988).
At the age of 27, she studied with the landscape-architect Roberto Burle Marx in Rio de Janeiro; 1950-52 with Arpad Szènes and Fernand Léger in Paris. 1952 exhibition of abstract painting in the Ministério da Educaçao e Cultura in Rio de Janeiro; 1953 participation in the Biennial of Sío Paulo. 1964 participant in the »Grupo Frente«, from which the Concretism movement in Rio de Janeiro emerged. 1954-58 series of paintings which are concerned with Constructivist parameters. 1955 and 1957 participation in the Biennial of Sío Paulo and 1957 in the I Exposiçao Nacional de Arte Concreto in Rio de Janeiro; 1959 signer of the Neo-Concretism Manifest. After 1959, use of objects in which the observer is actively integrated, especially after 1965 with Happenings and Performances. 1970-75 position as instructor at the Sorbonne in Paris. Lygia Clark played a singular and
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