[3] Between 1975 and 1978 Barreto took art and drawing courses at the Ateliê Livre da Prefeitura de Porto Alegre.
[4] Following her national recognition, between 1993 and 1994 Lia lived as fellow in Stanford University with a grant awarded by the International Fellowship in the Visual Arts.
In Sao Paulo, Brazil, the Galeria Fortes Vilaça has hosted her [ Projeto 2001 ], Origem do Afeto and assorted other works in the last decade.
[2] Katia Kanton, writing in Poliester Magazine,[6] describes her work this way: "In her strange formal operations, Lia Menna Barreto defies the sweetened way of looking at the world of children.
Her radical vision engenders a relevant social commentary that is involved with and questions the oppression of the everyday experience, full of mutilations and losses and feelings of safety and danger.