One of the most prominent artists from Rio de Janeiro, Beatriz Milhazes has gained national and international recognition for her poetic style, which, since the 1980s, has been marked by ornamental motifs and diverse references from art history—ranging from the exuberance of Baroque to the grandiose, popular, and hedonistic spirit of Carnival. Milhazes primarily produces paintings, prints, and collages. Her visual vocabulary is dynamic and draws from various sources, from industrial ones—such as product packaging—to graphic elements common in popular imagery, which places her in constant dialogue with pop art, while also engaging with the geometric tradition of Brazilian art, represented by concretism and neoconcretism.

Her work frequently rejects gesturality, preferring the transfer of images and forms onto the support through collage and mechanical processes. Circular shapes in concentric displacements and sinuous lines are common, creating a sense of lightness and dynamism in her geometric works. This aspect is complemented by her vibrant, carnival-like, and tropical colors.

The artist, who was part of the so-called "Generation 80," began to gain international prominence in the 1990s. Her works are held in the collections of museums such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) in New York, the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, among others. Her paintings set a record for Brazilian art sales at a Sotheby’s auction in New York.