Venezuelan-born artist Luchita Hurtado was only recognized for her artworks towards the end of her life even though she had been creating art since the 50s, where pre-Columbian and tribal themes. Since then, Luchita took on themes of a broad range of styles and themes, highlighting political issues related to feminism and environmentalism while incorporating different approaches to art, ranging from modernist abstraction to decorative arts and indigenous figurative and surrealist style. Although her journey to being accepted in the world of art was a long one, Luchita states, "I really haven't ever resented any time I've given, because I don't think it's time lost."

Hurtado's' most famous works may be the "I Am" series (1960), which fixes the viewer in the artist's head, looking down at her own body in a way that often conjures a landscape painting. 

Luchitas Hurtado received the Americans for the Arts Carolyn Clark Powers Lifetime Achievement Award on 2019 and also received mention in Times Magazine's '100 most influential people'. Read Less