Artist.
Born Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo Calderón on July 6, 1907, in Coyoacán, Mexico. Considered one of Mexico's greatest artists, she began painting at the age of 18 after she was severely injured in a bus accident in September 1925. Her injuries included a broken spinal column, collarbone, pelvis, and more. Though she recovered from the injuries and eventually regained her ability to walk, she remained in extreme pain for the rest of her life.
While attending the National Preparatory School, Frida Kahlo met the artist Diego Rivera. He encouraged her art and she later married him in 1929. The couple had a tumultuous relationship and both she and Rivera had numerous extramarital affairs.
Her work, fantastical and imaginative and yet deeply personal, consisted of many self-portraits. Kahlo's love of animals, her despair over a miscarriage, and other parts of her life and personality found their way to her canvases. By the end of the 1930s, Kahlo was beginning to be recognized for her own talents, not just as the wife of a famed muralist. She had solo exhibits in Paris and New York City. Despite battling pain and health problems most of her life, Kahlo continued to paint and share her love of art with others until her death. She died on July 13, 1954.
Since her death, Frida Kahlo has become an internationally known artist, and her work has been featured in numerous exhibits. Her life was the subject of a 2002 film entitled Frida, starring Salma Hayek.
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