Artist: Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954)
Nationality: Mexican
Movement: Surrealism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
After an injuring streetcar crash, Frida Kahlo began painting to occupy her time during recovery. She then submitted her work to artist Diego Riveria, who she would eventually marry in 1928 and divorce 1939. Because of her husband’s temperament and infidelity, common themes in Kahlo’s work were the suffering and pain of women.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (14)
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Portrait of Frida Kahlo (Retrato de Frida Kahlo), Diego Rivera (Mexico, Guanajuato, 1886 - 1957) , circa 1939, Oil on asbestos cement shingle
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Jack Hooper Frida Kahlo monotype 1984
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Weeping Coconuts (Cocos gimientes), Frida Kahlo (Mexico, 1907 - 1954)  (Artist), 1951, Oil on board
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An Inner Dialogue with Frida Kahlo (Collar of Thorns), Yasumasa Morimura (Japan, born 1951) , 2001, Ink-jet print on canvas
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Rupert Garcia Frida Kahlo color screenprint 1975
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Rupert Garcia Frida Kahlo color screenprint 1990
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Rupert Garcia Homenaje a Frida Kahlo color screenprint 1978
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Rupert Garcia (one calendar of twelve serigraph images- Frida Kahlo, Septiembre) screenprint 1975
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Frida Kahlo - Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair 1940 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Mexican
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Frida Kahlo - Self-Portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky 1937 oil on masonite National Museum of Women in the Arts Mexican
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Harry Fritzius Frieda Kahlo Color woodcut monoprint 1987
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Anders Zorn Frida Etching with drypoint 1914
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El Ropero de Frida, Jose Estaban Lozano (United States, born 1957) , 2001, Screenprint
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Frida y Diego nos muestran Mexico, Tony Ortega (United States, New Mexico, Santa Fe, born 1958) , 1991, Screenprint

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (31)
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National Gallery of Australia: Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism
Celebrated by the Surrealists in her own lifetime, Kahlo has attained cult-like status both for her extraordinary art and her tempestuous love-life with husband Diego Ri...
McMichael Canadian Art Collection: Carr, O'Keeffe, Kahlo: Places of Their Own
Places of Their Own, was inspired by Dr Sharyn Udall's book of the same name. Dr Udall, of New Mexico is our guest curator and brings to the exhibition not only her extensive knowledge of Carr, Kahlo and O'Keeffe's art, but also additional in...
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art: Morimura Self-Portraits: An Inner Dialogue with Fridao Kahlo
Morimura has won worldwide acclaim for his self-portraits, works that consist of reproductions of famous paintings in which the faces of the subjects are replaced by the face of ...
City Gallery: VIVA LA VIDA - Frida KAHLO, Diego RIVERA and MEXICAN MODERNISM
Frida and Diego on their wedding day… demonstrating together… meeting art patrons in America… relaxing at home with their pets… embracing tenderly at the kitchen table….The 80 photographs in Frida y Diego, Amores y Desamores (‘Love and Disaffecti...
Tacoma Art Museum: Frida Kahlo: Images of an Icon
Kahlo’s life story was portrayed on film by her father, her husband, her lovers, and her friends, as well as prominent photojournalists and photographers of the time. At an early age, she became aware of the beauty and magic of photography, as bot...
Fraser Gallery: Passion for Frida: 27 Years of Frida Kahlo Artwork
In 1975 my parents took their first vacation ever, at least in my memory. As Cuban exiles, the American tradition of yearly vacations was as removed from their routine as the Cuban tradition of Nochebuena is from American Christmas holiday customs...
Seattle Art Museum: Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection
The exhibition will focus on three broad categories of works made between the mid-1910s and the mid-1960s. First, the collection includes a large number of portraits, many of which depict the Gelmans themselves, attesting to the personal relations...
Phoenix Art Museum: Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Twentieth-Century Mexican Art
Jacques believed that the collector was not the owner of the work but was instead its guardian, a simple link in the human chain which allows the work to survive the long odyssey from the studio to the museum.
- Pierre Schneider ...
Throckmorton Fine Art: Diego y Frida: Photographs by Various Photographers
Diego Rivera (1886 – 1957) is not only the most outstanding of contemporary Mexican painters, an artist of unequaled vastness of conception; he is also the most prolific. He stands as the example of a painter who, having assimilated and utilized ...
San Diego Museum of Art: Retratos: 2,000 Years of Latin American Portraits
For more than 2000 years, portraits have served many purposes in Latin America: preserving the memory of the deceased; bolstering the social standing of the aristocracy; marking the deeds of the powerful and heroic; advancing the careers of poli...
Helsinki City Art Museum's Tennis Palace galleries: Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera was fond of telling stories and some of them have become legends about his own life. However, it is known that in his youth Rivera was a member of the circle of artists in Montparnasse in Paris, together with Picasso and other...
Pierre Gianadda Foundation: Russian Icons, the Saints
Noted for its outstanding exhibitions the Fondation Gianadda, constructed over Roman ruins, since its opening in 1978, has presented works by such distinguished artists as Chagall, Gauguin, van Gogh, Kahlo, Kandinsky, Lautrec, M...
Vancouver Art Gallery: Carr, O'Keeffe, Kahlo: Places of Their Own
The Vancouver Art Gallery retains one of the most significant Emily Carr collections in the world and is justifiably proud to present this outstanding exhibition. Comprising 56 paintings, the exhibition was inspired by Dr. Sharyn Udall's book of t...
Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla: Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Twentieth-Century Mexican Art: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection
Today, the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection of twentieth-century Mexican art is widely regarded as the world’s most significant private holding of its kind. Dating from the 1910s to the 1990s, the 80-...
Museo Casa de Frida Kahlo (Casa Azul): Fifty Years After Her Death Frida Continues to Dazzle Art World   
Meanwhile, London’s famed Tate Modern Museum, beginning June 9 through Oct.9, will stage Britain’s first major respective of her work with 70 paintings as well as watercolors and drawings. In New York, there she is again, when El Mus...
Phoenix Art Museum: Mexico and Modern Printmaking: A Revolution in the Graphic Arts, 1920-1950
Mexico and Modern Printmaking is an exciting display of nearly 150 important lithographs, etchings and woodcuts by 40 artists who came to define a new brand of Modernism, native to Mexico – such as Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros, Tamayo, Kahlo, Dr....
Museo de la Isla de Cozumel: Dulce y Amargo: Works by Jackie Sleper
Jackie Sl eper has always been fascinated by Mexico and it's artist Frida Kahlo, for whom she has a profound admiration. In 2005, she received an invitation from Matty Roca, art historian and President of the Council for Arts and Culture in Cancun...
Hong Kong Visual Arts Centre: Theatrics of Art in the Work of Durga Kainthola
Sushma Bahl continues, "She does this with great aplomb combing religious symbols with pop culture, fabric with calligraphic writings, handmade art with digital prints, complex motifs with simple line markings and colourful paintings intertwined w...
Throckmorton Fine Art: LOLA!: Photographs by Lola Alvarez Bravo
Lola Alvarez Bravo (1907–1993) approached photography from many different points of view. She worked as a photojournalist, commercial photographer, professional portraitist, and political artist. Over many decades she contributed to the cultural...
Helsinki City Art Museum, Tennis Palace: TINA MODOTTI: The Mexican Renaissance
Tina Modotti's career as a photographer began in Mexico in the 1920s. This was the time of the Mexican Renaissance, when artists explored Mexico's Indian cultures and traditions in search of an authentic and original Mexican identity. ...
Gallery and Studio 21: Homage to Frida: Solo Exhibition by Clari Netzer
For Clari Netzer, Frida Kahlo is a daring and innovative woman, moved by her singular personality, passion and peculiar sense of humor, she was pride of being "Mexicana" , she broke taboos questioning herself identity .and treating subjects exc...
Moderna Museet: Tina Modotti and the Mexican Renaissance
Tina Modotti and the Mexican Renaissance shows Modotti's photography between 1923 and 1930 when she was working in Mexico. During the 1920s, together with her A...
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art: Tadanori Yokoo: DNF Anya Kouro
Yokoo has won a wide and enthusiastic following that encompasses all ages and nationalities. As a leader in his field and a constant source of grand messages, he has had...
Montreal Museum of Fine Art: Vibrant Colours and the Passion of Mexican Modern Art
For the past seventy-five years, the understanding and appreciation of Mexican art have focussed primarily on the murals, particularly those by Los Tres Grandes: Diego Rivera, ...
Museum of Fine Arts: Mexican Modern: Masters of the 20 th Century
Mexican Modernism is known the world over for its beauty -vibrant colors and simple imagery -and its bold socio-political commentary. Responding to a wide gap between rich and poor, Spanish- and indigenous-descent, these artists used their talents...
Victoria and Albert Museum: Recent Gifts of Photojournalism
40 photographs from these two gifts have been selected for the display by the distinguished art historian Professor David Alan Mellor, this year's V&A/University of Sussex Research Fellow. The display explores four key themes of mid 20th ce...
Museum of Fine Art, Houston: Diego Rivera: Art and Revolution

More than 90 paintings and drawings in a variety of media, including paintings rarely or never exhibited in the United States, are being lent by museums and ...
Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona: Gisele Freund: The World And My Camera
Gisèle Freund was born into an upper middle-class German Jewish family. She studied sociology at the Institut für Sozialforschung (Institute of Social Research) in Frankfurt under Adorno and Manheim, where she attended left-wing student meetings a...
American Art Dealers Association (ADAA): 16th Annual Exhibition to be Held at the Seventh Regiment Armory
This year The Art Show highlights a group of solo-shows that are ambitious and not to be missed. Continuing their tradition of showing a single artist at The Art Show for the last several years, PaceWildenstein will present recent works by the Abs...
San Jose Museum of Art: Carmen Lomas Garza: A Retrospective
Awakened to the Chicano movement in 1965 when a group of the United Farm Workers marched through her hometown ...
San Diego Museum of Art: José Clemente Orozco in the United States, 1927-1934
The Museum is delighted to be able to present such a significant exhibition of works by Orozco who, along with Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, and David Alfaro Siqueiros, is counted among the most important Mexican artists of the twentieth century. Wit...

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