Maria Thereza Alves
°1961
Born in , Brazil
Lives in Berlin, Germany
Maria Thereza Alves was born in Brazil and moved to New York at a young age. She has worked for the International Indian Treaty Council in New York City (where she met her partner Jimmie Durham). She was a founder of the Brazilian Information Center, working in defense of human rights of indigenous peoples, and co-founded the Partido Verde (Green Party) in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1981.
She has exhibited her artworks worldwide and often collaborates with Jimmie Durham.