Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter born in 1907 who is famous for her many self-portraits. She was involved in a bus accident at age 18 that caused lifelong pain and injuries. During her recovery, she began painting self-portraits that would become her signature genre. She married the famous Mexican muralist Diego Rivera in 1929. Throughout her life, Kahlo expressed her physical and emotional pain through her paintings of herself and her relationship with Rivera. She painted over 150 artworks in a variety of media until her death in 1954.