Claudia Hecht ( born January 10, 1965).) is a Mexican painter and sculptor. She has achieved international recognition for her artwork, with exhibitions in Mexico, Central America, Europe and the U.S.

She was the second of five children born into an upper class family in Mexico City where her father was a successful dealer in art and antiquities. Although she was exposed to the world of art from an early age, it was a near death experience from poisoning and the shift in her awareness that occurred as a result that catalyzed her career. It was this experience that caused Hecht to begin seeking an outlet for the insights borne of that shift.

As the daughter of an active dealer in the arts, Ms. Hecht was extremely fortunate to gain at an early age, exposure to a wide range of artistic influences. The implicit religious and spiritual concerns of the indigenous pre-Columbian cultures along with the explicit religious themes of Catholicism formed the underlying cultural context of Latin America that Ms. Hecht grew up in. It was within this context that the young Ms. Hecht viewed the work of the latin artists of the twentieth century as the influence of Eurocentrism began to fade and those artists began to acknowledge their unique identity and follow their own paths. Torres-Garcia, Tamayo, Kahlo, Rivera, Lam, all of these combined to shape the lens through which she projects the perceptions of what Wordsworth once called "that inward eye", onto the canvas.

Hecht has melded those influences and created a unique style, which is largely characterized by the prominence of abstract hybrid figures and forms, often derivative of distinctly Mexican themes, the degree of abstraction depending upon the underlying aesthetic and the choice of colors shapes and proportions used to achieve such. Although she is predominantly a painter, a large part of her early work was in sculpture. Beginning in 1988 she apprenticed on and off in Guadalajara, working in traditional terra cotta in high relief. 1991 marked the beginning of an association with a small group of figurative sculptors working primarily in wood, who shared her interest in primitive expression wherein the Mayan influence is readily apparent.

In 1994 she moved to Rome to study, among other techniques, 18th century gilded painting, which was to have a defining impact on her work going forward. The synthesis of metallics with vivid and highly colorful figures in oil on canvas and wood panel, a technique which would evolve to become the greater part of her signature, had it's genesis during this time and from 1996 onward, commissioned by several wealthy collectors in Guadalajara and Mexico City, this became her focus. In 2002 she returned to Rome to paint and refine her distinct approach to what would, over the next decade, become a movement of increasing importance in Mexico called Pictorial Sculpture Art - the technique of relief painting in oil and metal leaf on canvas, wood and glass.

"The light of consciousness - the creative impulse - shines through the lens of the artist for it's own fulfillment" - Claudia Hecht