Asilia Guillén

Asilia Guillén (1887–1964) was a Nicaraguan folk artist, specializing in embroidery and painting. Guillén was born in Granada, Nicaragua, into a patrician family. She received an education typical for a young woman of her station, learning embroidery and music among other subjects. She worked in embroidery for much of her artistic life, in line with the tradition of the bordados granadinos produced by the city of her birth. She took up painting at the age of sixty-five; once discovered by poet Enrique Fernández Morales, she took classes with Rodrigo Peñalba, at the time director of the School of Fine Arts in Managua. Early in her career she showed work at the São Paulo Art Biennial. In 1957 she was one of the six artists included in the group exhibition 6 Artists of Nicaragua organized by the Organization of American States;

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