Amalia Nieto

Amalia Nieto. She was born in Montevideo in 1907.

Sketches and paintings of inland scenery done when she was fifteen have been conserved.

In 1929 she went on a study trip to Europe. In Paris she attended the Academy of la Grande Chaumière and André Lhote's workshop. In 1934, she went to a workshop given by Torres García, where she participated in group exhibitions and became a member of the newly-formed Association of Constructive Art. She was to be the secretary of this institution for several years while continuing to train and exhibit, and in 1939 she staged her own second individual exhibition. She began to receive awards, mentions and distinctions as of 1941. She has exhibited in Germany, Argentina, Spain and the United States.

Her last individual exhibition in her lifetime was in 2001, in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Montevideo, while she was still painting. She died in Montevideo in 2003, at the age of 96.