20^th Century Spanish

Calvo studied at the School of Arts and Crafts and at the San Carlos School of Fine Arts, both in Valencia. She went on to receive several grants and scholarships, including one from the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1985 which allowed her to move to Paris. She remained there until 1992, when she returned to Spain to settle definitively in Valencia.

Collecting and archaeology are two terms often brought up when speaking about the work of this artist, who, since the mid 1970s, has been creating organised compositions of ceramic or wooden fragments, sometimes with purely taxonomical purposes and other times with a figurative intent, as in her series of landscapes and homages to other artists.

Her work has been the object of several retrospective shows, like those held at the IVAM in Valencia in 1990 and 2008. Calvo has won a number of distinctions throughout her career, including the 1989 Alfons Roig Award from the Provincial Council of Valencia, the 2009 Medal of the San Carlos School of Fine Arts and the 2012 AECA Award for the best work or body of work of a Spanish living artist.