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Anna Nicholson was born in Aibonito, Puerto Rico, February 19th, 1964. From 1982 to 1988 she studies at the Puerto Rico University, getting her bachelor degree at the Humanities Faculty, focusing her studies on Painting and Engravement. In 1990, she makes her first exposition called “Colografías" in the Hermes Book & Art Gallery, in Condado. In 1992 she obtains a scholarship from the Mexican Foreign Relations Secretary to make her superior studies specialized in San Carlos Engravement Alternative Techniques in the National Independent University of Mexico. Since 1988 she participates actively in national and international collective expositions. In 1994 she moves to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she studies her post-degree in the Superior Fine Arts School "Ernesto de la Cárcova", finishing in May, 1998 her Artistic Engravement Training. In December 1999 she makes her second individual exposition called "De casas y madres" in the Expositions Room of the Vizcaya Bilbao Bank in the Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, she exposes there 18 Paintings and 50 Engravements. In January, 2000 she returns to reside permanently in Puerto Rico, establishing her home and workshop in Río Piedras. Her work is part of important museums and collections in Puerto Rico as well as abroad. Nowadays, since January, 2002 she works as a teacher in the Inter-American University of Puerto Rico, enclosure of San Germán, Graduate Studies Centre, Engravement Workshop.