Dolores Soldevilla Nieto, known as Loló Soldevilla, was born on June 24, 1901 in Havana, Cuba.
Loló Soldevilla, a convinced activist and avid defender of culture in her country, was eventually appointed in 1949 as Cuba's Cultural Attaché for Europe, taking up residence in Paris. That same year, encouraged by her friend and artist Wifredo Lam, she joined the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and began her artistic career in 1950.
During her time living in Paris, she established connections with prominent European artists and organized numerous exhibitions centered on the Cuban Abstraction of the middle of the century. After returning to Cuba,in 1956, she plays a key role as a link between the European avant-garde and the new representatives of abstraction in Latin America.
Recently, Loló's work has received particular attention, as demonstrated by the numerous exhibitions organized in Cuba, throughout Latin America and beyond. In 2008 her work is included in the exhibition Cuba: Art and History from 1968 to Today, Museum of Montreal, Canada. In the same year his works are presented at the Groningen Museum, Netherlands.
In 2011, the Juan March Foundation, Madrid, hosts the exhibition Cold America - The Geometric Abstraction in Latin America 1934-1973, which includes works by Loló. In 2014, Loló's works are included in the exhibition Impulse, Reason, Sense, Conflict: Abstract Art from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami.
In 2015, Lólo’s work is included in the exhibition Concrete Cuba, at David Zwirner Gallery, London. The exhibition travels, in 2016, to the David Zwirner gallery in New York. In the same year, her work is chosen by the curator Okwui Enwezor as part of the exhibition Postwar: Art between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945-1965, which took place at the Haus der Kunst in Munich.
In the last 3 years Loló's work has been part of the exhibitions: Adiós Utopia:Dreams and Deceptions in Cuban Art, since 1950, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the same exhibition is presented later at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Sensitive Constructions: The Latin-American Geometric Experience in the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, presented at Centro Cultural FIESP, São Paulo; Triângulo, Loló Soldevilla, Sandú Darié and Carmen Herrera, Cisneros Fontanals Foundation (curated by: Elsa Veja and Ella Fontanals-Cisneros), Miami.
In 2018, the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, in Paris, includes Lólo’s works in the exhibition Géometries Sud: du Méxique à la Terre de Feu. In the same year, the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid presents the exhibition Paris without Regret: Foreign Artists 1944-1968, which includes works by Loló Soldevilla, which is considered one of the relevant foreign artists residing in Paris during this period.
In 2019, Sean Kelly Gallery of New York holds an important solo exhibition of the artist, entitled Constructing Her Universe: Loló Soldevilla, and publishes what is the first catalogue dedicated to her work.