Paula Rego

Paula Rego (b. 1935 in Lisbon, Portugal / lives and works in London), trained at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1952 to 1957. Rego has exhibited widely in Britain and internationally, including her most recent solo presentations: The Cruel Stories of Paula Rego, Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, 2018–19; Paula Rego: Obedience and Defiance, premiered at the MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, 2019, and was shown at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 2020, before traveling to IMMA in 2021. A major retrospective opens at Tate Britain in 2021.