Nicolas Franco’s work has been presented in more than 15 museum solo exhibitions and shown internationally in Europe, North and South America. His exhibitions have taken place in institutions including Tate Modern, London; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; MEIAC – Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santiago (MAC); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Santiago; Museo de Arte Moderno de Chiloé; Parque Cultural de Valparaíso; Fundación CorpArtes; MUUA, Antioquia; The Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Torun; Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid; and La Conservera, Murcia.

He participated in the First Chilean Triennial and has received grants and distinctions from institutions including the Mondrian Foundation, Fundación AMA, Tecnopól UAH and Oxford University, Fondart, DIRAC, and Union Latine Culture et Communication. His work is held in public and private collections including Tate Modern, Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santiago, Fundación AMA, Fundación Engel, Fundación Larivière, Colección Eduardo Hochschild, Colección Leticia y Stanislas Poniatowsky, and Il Posto.

His work has appeared in publications including Artforum, The Financial Times, Wallpaper, ArtNexus, and The Guardian. Franco has participated in international artist residencies, including De Ateliers and Gasworks.

EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Materia Gris | Grey Matter
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Sala Matta
Solo exhibition
Santiago, May - Aug. 2023

1973: A year in Art
Tate Modern
London, 25 Nov , 2019 - 18 Oct. 2020

1973: A year in Art
Tate Modern
London, 25 Nov , 2019 - 18 Oct. 2020

Ayer y Hoy is now part of Tate Modern Collection

The acquisition was made possible thanks to the donation of Juan Yarur and Fundación Ama.

MATERIA GRIS |
GRAY MATTER

* Upcoming 2025
English - Spanish | 104 pp
Softcover with plastic lining
19,5 x 28 cm
With: Sebastián Vidal Valenzuela, Ariel Florencia Richards, Ana María Risco

Publisher: Fondo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes, Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio.
ISBN: TBA

50 AÑOS

SUBTE - Montevideo

50 AÑOS

SUBTE - Montevideo

Resistance Performed
Aesthetic Strategies under Repressive
Regimes in Latin America

Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst; Zürich 2015

A Late Evening in the future

2019
Acrylic paint, acrylic resin, pigment ink,
muriatic acid on aluminum mounted on paper
220 x 152 cm. each.
Collection Il Posto, Santiago

LA SÁBANA | THE SHEET

2018
English - Spanish | 24 pages
Softcover with fold - out pages.
20 x 20 cm
With Ana María Risco, Oriana Bernasconi, Sebastián Vidal Valenzuela, Manuel Guerrero Antequera, Manuel Gárate Chateau, María Teresa Johansson
Published by Tecnologías Políticas de la Memoria, UAI.

Primeras Letras
Exhibition Views
LIMAC, 2017

Treated like Flowers

2014
Pigment ink and acrylic resins on paper
6 parts, 220 x 152 cm. each
Colección Fundación Engel, Santiago.

NN (Carretera del Sol )

2015
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Platinum Rag cotton paper
Framed 37,4 x 25,6 Inches

EYES
2014
Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago

Film Noir

Pigment ink on polyethinel film
Variable dimensions.
Installation views, Gasworks, 2013

Circa

2014
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Parque Forestal
Solo Exhibition

GÉNERO NEGRO
Trienal de Chile.

Museo de arte contemporáneo de Santiago

La Imagen y su doble
Video still

X, Y, Z
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
ISBN: 978-956-8890-18-6

Una fiesta extraña y bárbara (parte I)

Galería Macchina, Santiago, 2015