Marisa Rueda (1941–2022) was an Argentina-born artist. She is known for her sculpture and ceramics. Rueda was born in 1941 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She attended the . She emigrated to England soon after the

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Her work was included in the 1981 exhibition ''Women’s Images of Men'' at the

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in London. In 1989 she completed the sculpture ''The Man Who Blows the Clouds'' which was installed on

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. For a time she was married to Barry Chaplin with whom she had one child. She died in London in 2022 at the age of 80. She was a member of the Association for Cultural Advancement through Visual Art (ACAVA) and through that organization participated in the

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workshop ''Age/ncy: Art, Ageing and Transition with Flourishing Lives''. She was a member of the

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. Her work is in the collection of the Essex Collection of Art from Latin America (ESCALA).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rueda, Marisa 1941 births 2022 deaths Artists from Buenos Aires 20th-century women sculptors