Maria Do Carmo Secco

Maria do Carmo Fortes Secco (Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, 1933 - Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 2013) was a painter, draughtswoman, and teacher. She moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1954 and studied painting at the National School of Fine Arts (Enba). In 1963, she attended painting technique and art criticism courses at the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro (MAM/RJ), under the guidance of Ivan Serpa (1923-1973). The following year, she held her first solo exhibition at Galeria Vila Rica in Rio de Janeiro. During the 1960s, she focused on teaching art to children at the Escolinha de Arte do Brasil (EAB) and private schools, founding the Amarelinha Art Course. She participated in the São Paulo International Biennials in 1965 and 1967, winning the Itamaraty Acquisition Award in the latter.

In the 1970s, she began working with Super-8 film, influenced by her husband, Dileny Campos (1942). After a break from painting, she resumed her work in the 1980s, exploring the intersection between drawing and painting. In 1982, she moved to Belo Horizonte, where she taught drawing and painting at Escola Guignard. She curated the traveling exhibitions "Brasil Pinturas" (1983) and "Brasil Desenhos" (1984), promoted by the National Foundation of Art. In 1993, she returned to Rio de Janeiro, teaching drawing at the School of Visual Arts at Parque Lage (EAV/Parque Lage).

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