Lives and works in Belo Horizonte, Brasil
Teresinha Soares was born in Araxá, Minas Gerais, in 1927. She moved to Belo Horizonte in early adulthood, where she began her artistic career. She participated in three São Paulo Biennials (1967, 1971 and 1973) and held the solo exhibitions "Amo São Paulo" (1968), at the Art-Art Gallery, São Paulo, and "Corpo a Corpo in Cor-pus Meus" (1971), at the Petite Galerie, Rio de Janeiro.
Her work has been revisited and inscribed in the history of Brazilian art, having recently been part of major exhibitions in Brazil and internationally, such as "The World Goes Pop", at Tate Modern (2015), "Radical Women: Latin American Art", 1960-1985, at the Hammer Museum (2017), Brooklyn Museum (2018), and at the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (2018). In 2017, MASP held her first retrospective exhibition in 40 years: "Quem tem medo de Teresinha Soares?"