Ultra Violet

Biography

Ultra Violet was a French-American artist, actress, and writer born Isabelle Collin Dufresne in La Tronche, France on September 6, 1935. She studied with surrealist artist Salvador Dalí before relocating to New York, where she became closely associated with Pop artist Andy Warhol and his Factory scene. As a Warhol superstar, she appeared in several of his underground films, participating in the avant-garde art scene of the 1960s and 1970s.