About the artist

Born in 1935 in Lisbon, Portugal, Dame Paula Rego RA lives and works in London. The largest and most comprehensive retrospective of Rego’s work to date commenced last year at Tate Britain (7 July–24 October 2021) travelling to Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Netherlands (27 November 2021–20 March 2022), and Museo Picasso Málaga, Spain (26 April–21 August 2022).

Other current and recent major solo exhibitions include Paula Rego: Subversive Stories, featuring prints from across her career, at Arnolfini, Bristol (5 February–29 May 2022); Paula Rego: Literary Inspirations at Petersfield Museum, Hampshire (23 March–9 July 2022); Museum De Reede, Antwerp, Belgium (2021); and Paula Rego: Obedience and Defiance, curated by Catherine Lampert, which travelled from MK Gallery, Milton Keynes to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh in 2019–2020 and was on view at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin from September 2020–May 2021.

Rego’s work is in the collections of major museums including the British Museum, Tate, National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery, UK; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, USA; The Art Institute of Chicago, USA, and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA.