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Mexican painter born in Mexico City in 1930. She was a student of Manuel Rodríguez Lozano for which she is considered part of the so-called "Mexican School of Painting". Later she joined the prestigious painting, sculpture and print school of "La Esmeralda" where she studied with her contemporaries Agustín Lazo, Carlos Orozco Romero, Antonio Ruiz and Pablo O'Higgins. She obtained her masters in visual arts in in 1951. In 1953 she gets a government-sponsored scholarship and moves to Paris where she studied at he "Academie de la Grande Chaumiere" and presented her work at "La Maison du Mexique" during the Foreign Artists Exposition in France in 1954. She returned to Mexico in 1955. Like various other Mexican artists, during her years in France, Carrillo is influenced by vanguard artisitic movements like Cubism, Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. In 1960 she marries her collegue Manuel Felguérez. Her work is presented in Washington, New York, Tokio, Lima, São Paulo, Madrid, Barcelona, Bogota, and Cuba. During the "Confrontación 66" (Confrontation 66) exposition in the Fine Arts Palace in Mexico City, a challege arised between the "old school" artists representing the Muralist Movement and the young generation of painters. This gave rise to a generational gap and the formation of a new group known as the "Generacion de Ruptura" (Rupture Generation). A whole new school of visual arts is born in Mexico that preceded Mexican Muralism and Lilia Carrillo is credited to be the initiator of what became known in Mexico as Abstract Informalism. Unfortunatley, in 1969 an aneurism drives her away from her art until her death in 1974. Her paintings are highly appreciated by private collectors and many of her pieces are part of the collections of mayor museums around the world including the Modern Art Museum in Mexico City.