Mexican born artist Magali Lara graduated from the National School of Applied Arts in 1977. The same year she exhibited her work 'Tijeras' (Scissors), which consisted of a hand-made artist’s book containing a series of drawings, collages and short phrases along with prints of selected drawings. In 1981 she co-curated the first exhibition of Mexican contemporary women artists. She teaches painting in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Morelos.