Brazilian painter and scenographer born and lives in Rio de Janeiro. Milhazes paintings deal with traditional cultural decoration, baroque style and popular art. Her latest works, besides the floral symbols and forms, traditional in her iconography since the 80s, exist new elements like geometrical lines. 1986-98 Scenography; Companhia Marcia Milhazes Dança Contemporânea. Solo Exhibitions 2001 Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK, Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon, 2000 Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York; 1999 Stephan Friedman Gallery, London, 1998-2001 Galerie Natalie Obadia, Paris, Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, Holland. Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid, Spain, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York. Group Shows: 2000 Projects, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Universal Abstraction 2000, Fricciones, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; 1999 Abstract Painting, Once Removed, Keemper Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA, Tansvanguarda Latino Americana, Culturgest, Lisbon; 1997 XXIV Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, Biennale of Sydney, Australia. She is represented in several public collections namely in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Museum of Modern Art, New York.