Margarita Friedman was born and raised in Mexico. She studied Psychology in the Universidad de las Americas and Painting in the Academia de San Carlos. She moved to New York to study figurative painting at the New York Academy of Art where she graduated MFA Cum laude in 2004. She has exhibited in Mexico and in the United States. She lives in Brooklyn NY and teaches drawing and painting to groups and private students.

She has always been interested in the struggle of people to gain their own identity, in their sense of belonging and social ties. Portraiture has been fundamental in her work as she tries to understand society through the different types of people who are part of it.