Frida Kahlo

(1907-1954)

Self portrait Between the Borderline of Mexico and the United States

Kahlo was very proud of her Mexican cultural heritage, in the face of the growing Americanization of the country at the time.

Her life was marked by personal suffering, contracting polio as a child, being severely injured in a bus accident as a young woman, leaving her unable to have children and needing many painful operations.  Much of art deals with the pain of these experiences.

She was married (twice) to Mexican political artist Diego Rivera.