Multifaceted Brazilian Artist

Anna Bella Geiger (born in 1933 in Rio de Janeiro) is a renowned sculptor, painter, printmaker, draughtswoman, intermedia artist, and teacher. Initially trained in Anglo-Germanic language and literature, Geiger began her artistic studies in the 1950s at the studio of Fayga Ostrower (1920-2001). In 1954, she moved to New York, where she attended art history classes with Hannah Levy at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and audited courses at New York University. She returned to Brazil the following year.

Between 1960 and 1965, Geiger was part of the metal engraving studio at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro (MAM/RJ) and began teaching there three years later. In 1969, back in New York, she taught at Columbia University and returned to Rio de Janeiro in 1970. In 1982, she received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, also in New York. In 1987, she published the book "Geometric and Informal Abstraction: the Brazilian avant-garde in the fifties," co-authored with Fernando Cocchiarale (1951).

Geiger's work is notable for the use of various languages and the exploration of new materials and supports. Her production in the 1970s had an experimental character, including photomontage, photoengraving, xerox, video, and Super-8. Since the 1980s, she has also dedicated herself to painting.

Starting in the 1990s, Geiger began employing new materials, producing cartographic forms etched in metal, placed inside iron boxes or drawers filled with encaustic. Her works lie at the boundary between painting, object, and printmaking, making her one of the most versatile and respected artists in the Brazilian art scene.