Born
1917, Lancashire, England

Education
Ozenfant Academy for Art, London

Selected Solo Exhibitions
1942 Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York
1956 Galerie de Arte Mexicano
1957 Galerie AntonioSouza, México
1965 Galerie de Arte Mexicano, México
1965 Instituto Cultural Anglo-Mexicano, México
1965 Galerie Clardecor, México
1969 Galerie Pierre, Paris
1969 Institutot Nacional de Bellas Artes, Sala Nacional, México
1969 Palacio de Bellas Artes, México
1969 Galerie de Arte Mexicano/Florencia, México
1987 Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York
1987 Travelling Exhibition: Center for Inter-American Relations, New York and University Art Museum at the University of Texas at Austin
1987 Brewster Gallery, New York
1987 Art Space Mirage, Tokyo, Japan
1989 Museo Nacional de la Estampa, INBA, México
1990 Art Company, Leeds, England
1990 Brewster Gallery, New York
1991 Galerie de Arte del Auropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad de México
1991 Serpentine Gallery, London
1991 Sainsbury, Norwich, England
1991 Arnolfini, Bristol, England
1991 The Mexican Museum, San Francisco
2008 Talismanic Lens, Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco

Selected Group Exhibitions
1938 Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme, Galerie Beaux-Arts, Paris
1938 Esposition du Surréalisme, Galerie Robert, Amsterdam
1943 20th Century Portraits, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1943 First Papers of Surrealism, Madison Avenue Gallery, New York
1943 Exhibition of 31 Women Artists, Art of This Century, New York
1959 Eros Galerie, Daniel Cordier, Paris
1961 El Retrato Mexicano Contemporaneo, Museuo de Art Moderno, México
1963 Paintings from the collection of Edward James, Worthing Art Gallery, Worthing, England
1966 Surrealismo y Arte Fantastico en México, Galeria Universitaria, Aristos, México
1966 Surrealism: A State of Mind, University of California, Santa Barbara
1967 IX Bienal de Pintura, San Paulo, Brazil
1968 Artistas Britanicos en México 1800/1968, Instituto Anglo-Mexicano de Cultura, México
1969 The Surrealists, Byron Gallery, New York
1970 Impressionism to Surrealism, Worthing Art Gallery, Worthing, England
1974 Traveling Exhibition: Contemporaray Mexican Art, the National Museum of Art, Tokyo and the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
1975 La Mujer Como Creadora y Tema del Arte, Museo de Arte Moderno, México
1975 Britain in Mexico, XXX Aniversario del Instituto Anglo-Mexicano de Cultura, México
1975 Surrealism in Art, Knoedler Gallery, New York
1977 Paris-New York, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1977 René Magritte and Leonora Carrington, Surrealist Painting from the Edward James Collection, Chichester Centre of Arts, Chichester, England
1980 Mexique, Peintres Contemporains, Musée Picasso, Antibes, France
1981 Kánstlerinnen Aus Mexiko, Kánsterhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
1981 Latin American Masters, Brewster Gallery, New York
1981 Paris-Paris, 1937-1957, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1986 Los Surrealistas en México, Museo Nacional de Arte, México
1996 L'Aventure Surréaliste Autour d'André Breton, Galerie Artcurial, Paris
1996 Women Artists of the Surrealist Movement, Baruch College Gallery, New York
1987 Selections from the Permanent Collection, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
1987 La Femme et le Surréalisme, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Laussane, Switzerland
1989 Art in Latin America, The Haywayrd Gallery, London
1999 Women in Mexico, National Academy of Design, New York
1999 Mexican Painting 1950-1980, IBM, New York
1991 La Mujer en México, Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo, México
1991 El Surrealismo entre Viejo y Nuevo Mundo, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
1991 The Earth Itself, Parallel Project Gallery, Los Angeles
1991 Latin American Masters: Works on Paper and Sculpture, Brewster Gallery, New York
1993 Regards des Femmes, Musée d'Art Moderne, Lieja, France
1993 Sujeto-Objeto, Museo Regional de Guanajuato, Guanajuato y Museo de Monterrey, Moneterrey, México
1999 Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism and Self-Representation, The Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
1999 Surrealism: Two Private Eyes/The Nesuhi Ertegun and Daniel Filipacchi Collections, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
2001/2 Surrealism: Desire Unbound, The Tate, London, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2003 Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and 20th Century Mexican Art: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago
2007 Surrealism: Dreams on Canvas, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY