Geles Cabrera obituary — Ángeles María Cabrera Alvarado, known as Geles Cabrera, one of the first women to build a career as a sculptor in Mexico and the founder of her own museum, died on 1 September 2026. She was 100.
Compiled from published reports. Last updated 2 September 2026.
Quick answers
When did Geles Cabrera die?
She died on 1 September 2026. She was 100, having been born on 2 August 1926 in Mexico City.
What was Geles Cabrera’s cause of death?
No cause of death has been made public. This page will be updated if one is announced.
What was Geles Cabrera known for?
Sculpture of the female form, and the Museo Escultórico Geles Cabrera, which she founded in 1966 and which holds sixty of her works.
San Carlos, Havana, La Esmeralda
She studied at the Academy of San Carlos from 1943 to 1947, mornings for art and afternoons for dance. When her family moved to Cuba in 1947 she continued at the San Alejandro Academy, where she met Wifredo Lam. She returned to Mexico in 1949 and enrolled at La Esmeralda.
That same year she won first prize at the Fine Arts Salon in Havana and was invited to join the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana. She was 23.
Seventy years of work
Her sculpture returned again and again to the female form in modular shapes, working through love, loneliness and motherhood. She held more than twenty solo exhibitions and took part in some fifty group shows, and won first prize for sculpture at Gabrovo, Bulgaria, in 1985.
She was a founding member of GUCADIGOSE in 1975, a group committed to putting three-dimensional work into the city itself, and she taught sculpture at the José Vasconcelos National Preparatory School for thirty-seven years.
The Museo Escultórico Geles Cabrera, founded in 1966, holds sixty of her pieces. Some are meant to be touched, including a swing that makes the sound of a heartbeat.
A note from Memories Mortuary
Memories Mortuary had no involvement in Geles Cabrera’s funeral arrangements. This obituary is published as a tribute, compiled from published reports. Obituaries for the families we serve are published separately.
Sources for this Geles Cabrera obituary
- Death and date — Wikipedia, Deaths in September 2026: en.wikipedia.org
- Biography, training, works and awards — Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geles_Cabrera
- Photograph — Wikimedia Commons, AlejandroLinaresGarcia, CC BY-SA 4.0: commons.wikimedia.org
No cause of death had been made public at the time of writing. Verified against the sources above on 2 September 2026.
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