Ana Mercedes Hoyos is a Colombian painter, was born in Bogotá, on September 29, 1942. Daughter of the engineer, dedicated to architecture, Manuel José Hoyos, and Esther Mejía, this artist did elementary and high school at Marymount College of Bogotá During high school she took private painting classes with Luciano Jaramillo, her father cultivated her interest in museums and the history of art. She entered the University of the Andes to study plastic arts, continued his studies at the National University of Bogotá, but did not graduate in either of the two to devote himself to painting. In 1967 he married the architect Jacques Mosseri and two years later his daughter Ana was born. In 1966 Hoyos began to exhibit, his works were very close to the pop movement. Start your work with a series of fences, urban landscapes, ​and buses in oil, these works were characterized by having strong colors. From 1969 on, he realized what some considered one of his most important paintings, a series of Windows, this project is in small format, square, in which vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines frame a nebulous abstract landscape, and where its interest in the investigation of color variations and transparencies of oil; this series inspired some abstract paintings that I call atmospheres, they are very clear surfaces, generally close to white, with almost imperceptible tonal variations. Hoyos has a representative brand, his works have bright colors, almost flat. From 1987 he made a series of figurative works with national motifs, Bodegones de Palenque, starting with the platters of the fruit vendors of Cartagena, and a series of Papagayos. This Colombian artist made a large number of individual exhibitions, among which are those of the Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá in 1976, and "Ana Mercedes Hoyos, a decade 1970-1980", in the Centro Colombo Americano de Bogotá, in 1981. The president of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, lamented the death of the painter and sculptor Ana Mercedes Hoyos, who died on September 5, 2014, at the age of 72 in Bogotá. Santos transmitted through a message on Twitter his condolences to the family and loved ones of Hoyos and joined the message of mourning sent by the Ministry of Culture of Colombia. Hoyos, who celebrated half a century of artistic life this year, died at the Santa Fe Foundation Clinic in the Colombian capital, to which she had been admitted last Tuesday. The Ministry of Culture also lamented in a statement the death of an artist who considered "a great reference for the plastic arts in the world." He also emphasized the "immense legacy in art" left by Hoyos after half a century of an artistic career and considered the news of his death as "lamentable" for the world of culture.