Remedios Varo

María de los Remedios Alicia Rodriga Varo y Uranga (known as Remei or Remedios Varo, 16 December 1908 – 8 October 1963) was a Spanish surrealist painter, writer, and graphic artist. Her work features Surrealist worlds, where science, mysticism, and magic mix together.

One of the first women to study at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, she went on to establish herself in Barcelona in 1932. While there, she worked as a graphic designer and joined the Surrealist group Logicofobista. In 1937, Remedios moved to Paris with French poet Benjamin Péret. With the Nazis arrival in Paris in 1941, she self exiled to Mexico. Varo never returned to Spain.

Despite widespread belief, Remedios Varo never became a Mexican citizen. Though she never returned to her homeland, she kept her Spanish citizenship, unlike her friend Leonora Carrington, who was naturalized as citizen of Mexico.