Pacita Abad (September 5 1946 December 7 2004) was born in Basco Batanes a small island in the northernmost part of the Philippines between Luzon and Taiwan. Her more-than-thirty-year painting career began when she traveled to the United States to undertake graduate studies. She had over 40 solo exhibitions at museums and galleries in the U.S. Asia Europe Africa and Latin America. She also participated in more than 50 group and traveling exhibitions throughout the world. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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