(b. La Paz, Bolivia, 1918/9; d. New York City, 1982).
Pacheco studied with her architect father and at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in La Paz during the 1940's. During this early period she adopted Indigenism, but rejected it by the end of her career. She studied in Madrid on a scholarship with the Cubist painter Daniel Vázquez Díaz (1950-1952). Having come in contact with Antoni Tápies and other members of the Spanish avant-garde, she adopted an abstract style and co-founded the Eight Contemporary Painters Group back home in 1955. She eventually showed works of Informalist Abstraction at the 1959 Sío Paulo Bienal. In 1956 she moved to New York and became an American citizen. Her work during this later period leans toward gestural abstraction, with elements that refer to the Andean landscape, such as in the 1978 Hills. Her later works, becoming progressively whiter in terms of color, play with ideas of absence and presence and are anchored around a
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