Teresa Vicuña Lagarrigue (10 April 1927 – 15 August 2019) was a Chilean sculptor and educator.
Biography Vicuña was born on 10 April 1927 in Santiago to Carlos Vicuña Fuentes, a writer, lawyer, teacher, and politician, and Teresa Lagarrigue Cádiz, a sculptor.
One of six children Vicuña was the younger sister of , a poet, writer and librarian, and the older sister of Rosa Vicuña, a fellow sculptor and educator. Vicuña was the aunt of Cecilia Vicuña, a poet and artist, and Leonora Vicuña, a photographer, film editor and educator.
In 1951, Vicuña graduated from the Arts Faculty of the University of Chile.
Vicuña was a professor of sculpture at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile School of Fine Arts. Vicuña's is known to have been influenced by the 1941 book Art in Ancient Mexico: Selected and Photographed from the Collection of Diego Rivera' by Marie-Thérèse Pinto and Gilbert Médioni.
On 15 August 2019 Vicuña died in Santiago, aged 92.
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