Belkis Ayón, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Belkis Ayón

Cuban visual artist

Date of Birth: 23-Jan-1967

Place of Birth: Havana, Havana Province, Cuba

Date of Death: 11-Sep-1999

Profession: painter, printmaker, lithographer

Nationality: Cuba

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Belkis Ayón (23 January 1967 – 11 September 1999) was a Cuban printmaker who specialized in the technique of collography.
Ayón is known for her highly detailed allegorical collographs based on Abakuá, a secret, all-male Afro-Cuban society.
Her work is often in black and white, consisting of ghost-white figures with oblong heads and empty, almond-shaped eyes, set against dark, patterned backgrounds.
She was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1967 and took her own life in 1999.
In 2018, The New York Times published a belated obituary for her.