Lilia Carrillo was born in Mexico City, on November 2, 1930. A painter of the Generacion de Ruptura era, she decided she wanted to be a painter in her teens. While attending La Esmeralda, she fell from a scaffolding while working on a mural and injured her back. Carrillo received a scholarship to study in Paris in the 1950's which greatly influenced her subsequent work.
Although she began her career painting figuratively, after her study in Paris and exposure to the various movements of Cubism, Surrealism, Expressionism, etc. she created her paintings using the automatism tenet of Surrealism. The theory claims the artist uses her subconscious to guide her hand. This lead to her own style sometimes termed "lyrical informal abstractionism".
Carrillo's work was exhibited all over the world. In 1970, she suffered a spinal aneurysm, possibly resultant of her back injury earlier in her life. She was confined to a wheelchair, hampering her ability to paint. Sadly, Carrillo died at the young age of 43, in 1974.
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