Lúcia Suanê, born Lúcia de Barros Carvalho, was born in Água Preta, Pernambuco, Brazil, in 1922, and passed away in São Paulo in 2020. A Brazilian visual artist, she settled in São Paulo in the 1940s, developing a body of work characterized by tempera painting, muralism, folk-inspired figuration, and an imagination deeply rooted in the memories, festivals, rituals, landscapes, and cultures of Pernambuco. Her work bridges Brazilian modernism, popular religiosity, Indigenous references, regional memory, and technical experimentation, resulting in figurative compositions of great chromatic and symbolic intensity. In 1951, she participated in the 1st São Paulo Biennial and, at the invitation of Gregori Warchavchik—and upon the recommendation of Lina Bo Bardi and Pietro Maria Bardi—created a fresco for the baptistery of the Capela do Morumbi, depicting the baptism of Christ alongside angels with Indigenous features. Throughout her career, she took part in exhibitions both in Brazil and abroad, including the Salão Paulista de Arte Moderna and various group shows focused on modernism and Brazilian art. Her work was also revisited in the 2024 retrospective *O Pernambuco Cósmico de Suanê* ("Suanê’s Cosmic Pernambuco") at the Museum of Contemporary Art of the University of São Paulo (MAC USP). Her pieces are held in significant institutional collections—including that of MAC USP, which preserves two of her works—as well as in various public and private collections dedicated to Brazilian modern and folk art.