Magdalena Suarez Frimkess

Magdalena Suarez Frimkess (born 1929, Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan artist who works in ceramics.

[1] Suarez was sent to an orphanage at the age of seven after losing her mother to tuberculosis, as her father was not able to provide financial stability.

[1] After Chile, she was offered a fellowship to the Clay Art Center in New York, NY where she met her husband Michael Frimkess, a ceramicist and artist.

[4][7] Suarez had her first solo exhibition in 2013 when she was 84 years old at South Willard gallery in Los Angeles, California.

[3] Her first solo show in New York was at White Columns in 2014; The New Yorker described her works in it as "delightfully curious ... nonchalantly constructed, beautifully glazed".