María Eugenia Caprio was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1977. She is a Graduate in Visual Arts with major in Ceramics from the National University Institute of Art in Argentina and Art Professor in Visual Arts with major in Ceramics from the same University.María Eugenia Caprio works in the National University Institute of Art since 2000. She started working as a Teaching Assistant for the courses System of Reproduction and Ceramics and at present she is an Associate Professor of Applied Sciences, which she has been doing since the year 2003.In the year 2009 she was awarded with a full scholarship to travel to Switzerland to participate in the Museum Arts project of the city of Yverdon les-Bains, in Switzerland. She also worked in the project “Le Musée des Beaux Arts du 21e siècle” in Salerno, Italy.She has participated in several art exhibitions and contests. In 2004 she won an Honorific Mention in the 21º Salón de Artistas Noveles at the Chamber of Commerce of Buenos Aires. In 2006 she won the First Prize in the 48º Salón Anual Internacional de Arte Cerámico which is organized by the Argentine Center of Ceramics in Argentina every year.She also has published an article about the Biennial Swiss “Vers un ailleurs” held in Basel in the Spanish magazine “Cerámica”.In her work she looks for simplicity with tenacity and chooses to work with as small quantity of objects as possible, avoiding everything that could influence in any way that which is essential for her: the message of the work. That’s the reason why she uses simple forms, pure lines and neutral colors, because she considers that complex forms or shiny colors could distract the attention of spectators from the message that she wants to transmit.