Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo (1907–1954)

Who Was Frida Kahlo?

Painter Frida Kahlo was a Mexican artist and she is still admired as a feminist icon.

Artist Frida Kahlo was considered one of Mexico's greatest artists who began painting mostly self-portraits after she was severely injured in a bus accident. Kahlo later became politically active and married fellow communist artist Diego Rivera in 1929. She exhibited her paintings in Paris and Mexico before her death in 1954.

In 1939, Frida Kahlo travelled to Paris on the invitation of Andre Breton, following a successful exhibition in New York. Here she exhibited 18 works as part of an exhibition entitled Mexique.