Selected Works
Selected Exhibitions
Grey Matter
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Santiago, 2023
Ayer y Hoy
Tate Modern, London, 2019 - 2020
Migors Museum, Zurich
Benditas Ruinas
MAVI - Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago. 2019
Citte Delle Done
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Santiago, 2017
First Letters
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima, 2017
La Sábana
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santiago, 2017
Nicolás Franco
Nicolas Franco was born in 1973, in Santiago, where he currently lives and works.
Fluidly moving between different styles and aesthetics, Nicolás Franco´s work has delve into the very nature of painting and photography, analyzing its components, its language and its history and often transcending the traditional boundaries of both mediums. His creations frequently play with ideas of representation, abstraction, process, pattern, visual distortions and optical illusions, inviting viewers to question their own sensory experience. Drawing from his experience as a Latin American artist, Franco’s work blends a diverse array of influences, incorporating references from different cultures, aesthetics, and histories. This fusion offers a wide range of layers of meaning and ambiguity, inviting multiple interpretations and perspectives.
His work has been shown extensively internationally in institutions such as Tate Modern; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; The Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Torun; LIMAC - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Santiago; Sala Alcalá 31 Madrid; MEIAC - Badajoz, La Conservera, Murcia; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santiago, MUUA - Antioquia; among others.
He participated in the First Chile Triennial and has been awarded funds from the Mondrian Foundation, Fundación Ama; Tecnopol UAH and Oxford University.
Nicolas Franco´s work is present in the collections of Tate Modern, Center of Contemporary Arts Torun (Poland); Museo del Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santiago, Museo de Artes Visuales de Santiago; Fundación AMA; Fundación Engel, Fundación Larivier, Il Posto and has been reviewed in The Financial Times, Wallpaper, ArtNexus and The Guardian. He has participated in several international art residencies such as De Ateliers and Gasworks.
Titles
Gray Matter
English - Spanish
144 pp
Softcover with fold - out pages, and signed printed matter
22 x 33 cm
Sebastian Vidal, Ana Maria Risco
Published by Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes & Fondo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes
MOON COAL IDOL
English, Spanish
272 pages
Hardcover with linen and holographic foil
21.5 x 27 cm
Heike Munder, Eugenio Dittborn, Ana María Risco, Sebastíán Vidal Valenzuela, Paz López, Patricio Zarate
Published by Fondo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes
XYZ
2013
English - Spanish
140 pages
Softcover with dust jacket
24 x 17 cm
With Eugenio Dittborn & Fernando Castro
Published by Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes
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