Artist Nelbia Romero (b. Uruguay 1938-2015), was a pioneer in the fields of installation and performances in Uruguay creating art works considered controversial. Her influence in Uruguayan art is widely recognized, especially in her use of social topics such as native or indigenous themes and feminist matters. Engraver, cartoonist, installation and performance artist, costume designer, object creator, teacher, passionately committed to the social and artistic advances of societies, Romero possessed was an uncompromising vision of the artist's attitude to reality and to the society in which she had to live.