Born: 10 November 1910, Argentina
Died: 14 June 1996
Country most active: Argentina
Also known as: NA
Argentine sculptor, illustrator and plastic artist Noemí Gerstein created mostly abstract works and experimented with new materials, with a preference for metallic creations. Born and raised in Buenos Aires, she studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes (National School of Fine Arts). She received French government funding to study at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris in the 1950s.
Gerstein was one of the winners of the Institute of Contemporary Arts’ design competition for the Unknown Political Prisoner Monument exhibition at the Tate Gallery in London in 1953. Internationally, she also participated in exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1967), Middleheim Open-Air Sculpture Biennial in Antwerp (1970) and the Venice Biennale (1956, 1962 and 1964), as well as museums and galleries in Germany, France and Israel.
In 1975, the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes named her an Académica de Número, the first woman to hold the title.
Her works include:
Monumento al prisionero político desconocido (1953)
Madre e hijo (1953)
Maternidad (1954)
La familia (En ocasiones llamada “El Oráculo”) (1960)
El samurai (1961)
Los amantes (1961)
Nacimiento (1961)
Goliath (1961–62)
Meteorito (1969)
Achiras (1973)
L’Art et L’Homme (1974)
Seoane Músicos
Milagro de la vida
Seres híbridos (1978)