Background
Lucy Tejada Saenz was born in Pereira, Colombia on 9 October 1920 and died in Cali, Colombia on 2 November 2011. After the death of her mother, Lucy moved to Bogota to study at the Javeriana University, and graduated from the School of Fine arts
Education
She completed her training in the Saint Academy Fernando and the School of Graphic Arts of Madrid, Spain.
Career
She lived in Cali from 1936. After a trip to the Guajira, in the year 1947, she had her first exhibition. In the 1950s, she travelled forfive years in Europe staying in Madrid, Paris and Bucharest, where she discovered the big museums.