Sarah Grilo began her career as a self-taught artist. In 1944, she began studying at the studio of the Catalan artist Vicente Puig. There, she met her husband, the artist José Antonio Fernández-Muro.
In 1949, she presented her first solo exhibition in Madrid, which was characterised by being a mixture of figuration and cubism.
Around this period, her paintings became more abstract. In 1952, she joined the group Artistas Modernos de la Argentina, under the direction of Aldo Pellegrini.
The group, made up of artists such as Enio Iommi, Alfredo Hlito, Tomàs Maldonado, Lidy Prati and José Antonio Fernández-Muro, among others, was presented in exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and at the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro until it was dissolved in 1954.
Following the dissolution of the group, Sarah Grilo moved to Paris. During this period, between 1957 and 1961, her work became more lyrical.
In 1962, she won the Guggenheim Fellowship.[5] The prize marked a turning point in her career and she moved to New York. From then on, she gradually freed herself from Geometric abstraction and developed a new plastic language. Her gestural works combined coloured surfaces, drips, digital and textual signs, graffiti.[6][7]
In 1970, the artist left for the south of Spain, where she would stay until 1979 with her family. From 1980 she alternated her stay between Paris and Madrid, where she definitely moved to live with her husband in 1985,[8] until her death in 2007.[9]
^The year of birth varies between 1919, 1920 and 1921 depending on the sources.
^Francisco Calvo Serralier (31 August 2007). "Sarah Grilo". El País (in Spanish). ...sin duda una de las mejores artistas latinoamericanas del siglo XX
