On May 30th, 2020, artist Carmen Herrera celebrated her 105th birthday.

Between 1948 and 1953, Herrera and her husband lived in Paris where she was influenced by vanguard European abstract art and developed the signature style that she still employs today—a dynamic interplay of hard-edged, geometric forms. Although Herrera's creative productivity paralleled that of her male contemporaries, it wasn’t until 2004 that she sold her first painting. Twelve years later—at age 101—she received a solo exhibition at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art.