Beatriz Milhazes

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Beatriz Milhazes
Birth name Beatriz Milhazes
Born Anon., 1960
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Nationality Brazilian
Field Painter
Movement Modernism

Beatriz Milhazes (b. 1960 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil is an artist.

In her first UK exhibition (2001) she showed paintings using Brazilian cultural imagery and references to western Modernist painting. She creates smooth surfaces, this is produced from the artist's use of plastic sheeting onto which paint is applied and then peeled off onto canvases.