Margarita Fragnito was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina where she started studying fine arts with the Austro-Hungarian Master Rafael Sceczi, and masters from Argentina, Chile, Brazil, China, England, Indonesia, Italy, Japan and Venezuela.

With the indigenous people of the Americas, she gained the intimate knowledge of cosmic wisdom. This knowledge is transformed into visual images of people, places, icons, and legends that transcend time and space. Using vibrant colors, as well as a stark imagery, Margarita takes the viewer to a universe without limitations of time, race, geography, culture, or languages.

According to the Brazilian art critic, Wagner Geribelo of the Department of Culture of Campinas, São Paulo:

"…It is the capacity to portray the soul; by far this is the most relevant and challenging focus of this work, a more than perfect example of the meta-symbolic ability of the arts, conquered in their highest degree by the Porteña (from Buenos Aires) artist. Margarita is thus raw material, product and producer of her art and at the same time thematic embryo and a character in each of her own pictures. This means, in simple words, the passionate art, capable of arousing passion."

In 1997 and 1998 she was Curator of the International Art Show and Auction in benefit of the Whitman Walker Clinic. She recently presented her paper "The Inscrutable Condition of Being" at the Latin American Studies Association XXIII International Congress LASA 2001 held in Washington DC.

"Human beings in their eagerness to explain everything, sometimes forget their own humanity. 'The Portrait of Our Americas Without Borders' and 'Memory of Human Dignity' are an invitation for a voyage into ourselves, with images of love, acceptance and human dignity."

Margarita Fragnito