After the death of her mother, Lucy moved to Bogota to study at the Javeriana University, and graduated from the School of Fine arts.

She has permanent works at the Club Rialto of Pereira, the solo museum of Cali and in the Library Luís Ángel Arango, of Bogota.

At the start of the decade of the 1950s, her work gained big international presence, when she participated at biennial events in Venecia, São Paulo, Mexico, Córdoba-Argentina, Medellín, San Juan-Puerto Rico and Havana-Cuba.

[1] After two weeks in the unit of intensive care at the Clinic of Occidente of Cali, Lucy Tejada died peacefully on November 2, 2011.

[2] The works of curation, study and preservation of such collection in preparation to a permanent public exhibition became reality as the Pereira municipality opened officially the Lucy Tejada Museum in 2019 as a tribute and recognition to a lifetime as an artist.