Teresa Vicuña

Vicuña was born on 10 April 1927 in Santiago to Carlos Vicuña Fuentes, a writer, lawyer, teacher, and politician, and Teresa Lagarrigue Cádiz, a sculptor.^[1][3][4]

One of six children Vicuña was the younger sister of José Miguel Vicuña [es], a poet, writer and librarian, and the older sister of Rosa Vicuña, a fellow sculptor and educator.^{[1][3][4][5][6]} Vicuña was the aunt of Cecilia Vicuña, a poet and artist, and Leonora Vicuña, a photographer, film editor and educator.^[7][8][9]

In 1951, Vicuña graduated from the Arts Faculty of the University of Chile.^[1][6]

Vicuña was a professor of sculpture at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile School of Fine Arts.^[6] Vicuña's is known to have been influenced by the 1941 book Art in Ancient Mexico: Selected and Photographed from the Collection of Diego Rivera' by Marie-Thérèse Pinto and Gilbert Médioni.^[10]

On 15 August 2019 Vicuña died in Santiago, aged 92.^[1]