Ana Maria Dias

Born in 1950 in Porto Feliz, Brazil - Since her childhood, spent in the historic city of Porto Feliz in the state of São Paulo, she remembers most of the scenes she recounts in her paintings.

Although she did not have her first exhibition until 1980, at the Museo da Casa Brasileira, in the capital of São Paulo, Ana Maria Dias has participated in group exhibitions since 1975, when she showed her paintings at the Salon des Plastic Arts in Porto Feliz, and in other cities.

From 1982, his paintings can be found in art galleries in France (Galerie Naïfs du Monde Entier in Paris and Galerie Jacqueline Bricard in Lourmarin), in Switzerland (Galerie Pro Arte Kasper in Morges) and in Israel ( Gina Gallery in Tel Aviv). His painting evokes the happy days of his childhood. It represents old and beautiful farms, with its orchards and its workers in the fields, children's games, simple means of transport and life in a fertile countryside surrounded by mountains.

"Ana Maria Dias' canvases become documentary elements of life without dialectical artifices", observes the critic Jorge Anthonio da Silva at the presentation of the catalog of his individual exhibition at the Jacques Ardies Gallery in 1993.

Other individual exhibitions were held in the same gallery in 1983, 1986, 1993, 1998 and 2009. His paintings were chosen to illustrate greeting cards for several Brazilian voluntary entities, and were reproduced by the House of Max Fourny edition in the books, "La Cité et les Naïfs" and "l'Arbre et les Naïfs".