1897, las Villas, Cuba / 1968, Havana, Cuba.

Cuban artist of great international trajectory.

She studied at the San Alejandro Academy and was a favorite student of the teacher Leopoldo Romañach, another of the relevant figures in Cuban plastic arts.

She held her first exhibition in 1924, and three years later she traveled to Europe and lived for some time in Paris, where she continued to study. Upon her return to Cuba in 1934, she converted her house in La Víbora into her workshop, and she had an active participation in the movement of modern Cuban artists. The following year she won a prize at the National Salon and exhibited, at the Lyceum, many of the works made in Paris.

Amelia's unique and personal style is not only present in her pictorial work, but also in her ceramic work, which she began in 1950 and to which she devoted herself intensely until 1962. Mural painting was also another. of the facets of her art.

Among her most important awards are that of 1935, National Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture Award (College of Architects), Havana, Cuba; 1956, Prize of Merit, VIII National Salon of Painting and Sculpture, Havana, Cuba and 1959, Acquisition Prize, Annual Salon. Painting, Sculpture and Engraving, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, Cuba.

Her works are part of prestigious private and institutional collections inside and outside the country; the National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana, treasures part of her work.