Fanny Sanín: Eyes Wide Open
January 18 - March 14, 2024
Fanny Sanín, Study for painting No 1 (4), 2021. Acrylic on paper, 19 ¼ x 18 1/16 x 1 ½ in. (48.9 x 45.9 x 3.8 cm.)
Fanny Sanín, Study for painting No 1 (3), 1979. Acrylic on paper, 15 ⅞ x 19 5/16 x 1 ⅝ in. (40.3 x 49.1 x 4.1 cm.)
Fanny Sanín, Watercolor No 1, 1968. Watercolor on paper, 16 ⅞ x 19 x 1 ⅝ in. (42.9 x 48.1 x 4.1 cm.)
Fanny Sanín, Watercolor No 6, 1965. Watercolor on paper. 15 x 16 ¾ x 1 ⅝ in. (38.1 x 42.7 x 4.1 cm.)
Fanny Sanín, Oil No 12, 1966. Oil on canvas, 47 ¼ x 64 ¾ in. (120 x 164.5 cm.)
Fanny Sanín, Oil No 2, 1968. Oil on canvas, 50 ½ x 70 ⅝ x 1 ¼ in. (128.3 x 179.4 x 3.2 cm.)
Fanny Sanín, Oil No 12, 1965. Oil on canvas, 42 ⅞ x 54 ¾ in. (109 x 139 cm.)
Fanny Sanín, Study for Painting No. 1 (3), 2020, 2020, Marker and pencil on paper, 12 x 16 inches (30.5 x 40.6 cm.)
Fanny Sanín, Acrylic Nº 4, 1977, 1977, Acrylic on canvas, 44 x 54 inches (111.8 x 137.2 cm.)
Fanny Sanín, Acrylic No. 2, 1988, 1988. Acrylic on canvas, 53 x 69 in.
Fanny Sanín, Acrylic Nº 3, 2010, 2010. Acrylic on canvas, 58 x 52 in.
Fanny Sanín, Acrylic No. 1, 1999, 1999, Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 52 in.
Fanny Sanín, Acrylic No. 1, 2010, 2010, Acrylic on canvas, 56 x 60 in.
Fanny Sanín, Acrylic No. 1, 1992, 1992, Acrylic on canvas, 37 x 46 in.
Fanny Sanín, Acrylic No. 2, 2002, 2002, Acrylic on canvas, 52 x 48 in.
Fanny Sanín, Acrylic No. 2, 2016, 2016, Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 52 in.
Fanny Sanín, Acrylic No. 2, 2013, 2013, Acrylic on canvas, 34 x 40 in.
Fanny Sanín, Composition No. 5, 2012, 2012, Acrylic on paper, 41 x 29 1/2 in.
FANNY SANÍN
[1938, Colombia]
Fanny Sanín Sader is a Colombian-born artist from Bogotá who resides in New York City. She is best known for her paintings of abstract geometric forms and colors. She is considered to be part of the second generation of abstract artists from Colombia.
She graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from the Universidad de Los Andes in 1960. She then continued her studies in the areas of printmaking and art history at the University of Illinois in Urbana. While living in London later in the 1960s, she studied engraving at the Chelsea College of Arts. She also was awarded an Honoris Causa de Magíster en Artes (honorary master’s degree of art) by the Universidad de Antioquia (UdeA) in Medellín, Colombia in February 2015.
Fanny Sanín Sader’s work has been shown in selected exhibitions, including STILL ALIVE, Aichi Triennale: Aichi Arts Center, Arimatsu, Nagoya City, Ichinomiya City, and Tokoname City, Japan (2022); New Acquisitions and Old Friends, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio, USA (2021); Abstracción y Geometria, Colección FEMSA, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico (2014); Art Latin America: Against the Survey, Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA (2019); Fanny Sanín’s New York: The Critical Decade, 1971-1981, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York City, New York, USA (2020); Concrete Realities, Latincollector, New York City, New York, USA (2004);The Illusive Eye, an extensive exhibition of Constructivist and Optic art in Latin America, El Museo del Barrio, New York City, New York, USA (2016); “Color into Light,” Connecting Currents: Contemporary Art at the Fine Arts Museum Houston in the inaugural installation of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), Texas, USA (2020);
Equilibrium: Fanny Sanín (solo exhibition), National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, USA (2017); Latin American Art: Context and Accomplishments, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, UK (2004); and Color, Form, and Unicorn—Recent Acquisitions, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), California, USA (2018).
In 1993, her painting Acrylic No. 6 was added to the Art Museum of the Americas’ permanent collection. Some of her other works have been added to the permanent collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France; Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA; The Diane and Bruce Halle Collection of Latin American Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA; Essex Collection of Art from Latin America (ESCALA), Colchester, England, UK; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), California, USA; Museo de Arte Abstracto Manuel Felguérez (MAAMF), Zacatecas, Mexico; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Bogotá (MAC), Colombia; Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico; El Museo del Barrio, New York City, New York, USA; Museo La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia; Museo Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), Texas, USA; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, USA; New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), Louisiana, USA; New York Public Library (NYPL), New York City, New York, USA; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC, USA; and UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), California, USA.
2025
Fanny Sanín: Geometric Equations, Americas Society, New York, NY, USA
2024
Venice Bienniale, Venice, Italy
Fanny Sanín: Eyes Wide Open, Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino, Houston, TX, USA
2023
As South As It Gets: A Sampling of Contemporary Latin American Art, Ger-Art, Atlanta, GA, USA
Something Beautiful: Reframing La Colección, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, USA
La Espiritualidad en el Arte Abstracto, Capilla Cristo Maestro, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
Historia de un Amor, Galería Espacio Alterno, Uniandinos, Bogotá, Colombia
Abdolreza Aminlari | Polly Apfelbaum | Marilyn Lerner | Fanny Sanín | Alan Shields, Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY, USA
Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-70, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK; Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, France; Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
2022
Umbrales para la Contemplación (solo exhibition), Durban Segnini Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
Inspired Encounters: Women Artists and the Legacies of Modern Art, the inaugural exhibition of the David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center at Pocantico, Tarrytown, NY, USA
STILL ALIVE (solo exhibition), Aichi Triennale 2022, Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya City, Japan
Colombia: A Work of Art; Our Legacies in the AMA Collection, Art Museum of the Americas (AMA), Washington, D.C, USA
Fanny Sanin: Progression (solo exhibition), 1966 to Now, Dickinson Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2021
Latinx Abstract, BRIC, Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA
ARCO Madrid (virtual solo exhibition), León Tovar Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Virtual Viewing Room, ARCO E-Exhibitions, Madrid, Spain
Círculo y Cuadrado, Galería Espacio Continuo, Bogotá, Colombia
Focus on Latin American Art: Fanny Sanin, website, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), TX, USA
Unframed, Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino, Houston, TX, USA
Los Maestrísimos, Taller Espacio 70, Bogotá, Colombia
New Acquisitions and Old Friends, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, CO, USA
2020
“Color into Light,” Connecting Currents: Contemporary Art at the Fine Arts Museum Houston in the inaugural installation of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), TX, USA
Sightlines, Leon Tovar Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Maestros, Galería El Museo, Bogotá, Colombia
Maria Thereza Negreiros y 16 mujeres artistas de su generación, Museo La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia
Ahí Están Pintadas – Homenaje a la Mujer, Centro Cultural Reyes Católicos – Embajada de España, Bogotá, Colombia
Members exhibition, New York Arts Club, NY, USA
Fanny Sanín’s New York: The Critical Decade, 1971-1981 (solo exhibition), The James B. Duke House, Institute of Fine Arts at NYU, New York, NY, USA
Concretos, Museo de Arte del Tolima, Ibagué, Colombia
Artists for Biden, Auction held on Platform Art, David Zwirner Gallery
2019
Fanny Sanin: Concrete Abstractions (solo exhibition), Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino, Houston, TX, USA
Outlines, Leon Tovar Gallery, New York, USA
Seven Artists: Colombian Geometry Abstraction, Durban Segnini Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
Members exhibition, New York Arts Club, NY, USA
Women Geometers, Atchugarry Art Center, Miami, FL, USA
Art Latin America: Against the Survey, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, MA, USA
La Colección en Escena 01: Variaciones infinitas, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia
2018
Structured Rhythmns: Edgar Negret, Fanny Sanín, Eduardo Ramírez, Villamizar, Leon Tovar Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Summer Exhibition, Leon Tovar Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Amazonas, Lamazonne Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia
Members exhibition, National Arts Club, New York, NY, USA
68,70,72 Bienales de arte Coltejer, Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
Linea de Tiempo III, 2011-2018, Galería Espacio Alterno, Uniandinos, Bogotá, Colombia
Maestros, Galería El Museo, Bogotá, Colombia
Art of the Americas: Collection of the Art Museum of the Americas of the Organization of American States, The Art Museum of the Americas (AMA), Washington, D.C., USA
Color, Form, and Unicorn—Recent Acquisitions, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, CA, USA
Fanny Sanín: En Abstracto (solo exhibition), Centro Colombo Americano, Cali, Colombia
2017
New Acquisitions, The Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, OH, USA
Latin American Geometric Abstraction, Leon Tovar Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Tefaf, Leon Tovar Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Art New York, Durban Segnini Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Edges and Angles, Leon Tovar Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Louver Gallery in Los Angeles presents Sanín’s works from the 1960s to the present in the context of the Pacific Standard Time LA/LA celebration (solo exhibition), Los Angeles, CA, USA
Equilibrium: Fanny Sanín (solo exhibition), The Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., USA
Fanny Sanín: En Abstracto (solo exhibition), Centro Colombo Americano, Bucaramanga, Colombia
2016
The Balance of Color (solo exhibition), The Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD, USA
Collección de Arte AVIANCA, Museo de Arte Moderno de Cartagena, Colombia
Fundadores, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Bogotá, Colombia
The Illusive Eye, an extensive exhibition of Constructivist and Optic art in Latin America, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, USA
Homenaje a la constancia, a retrospective of Sanín’s work on paper (solo exhibition), Museo de Arte of the Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
Symmetry (solo exhibition), León Tovar Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Fanny Sanín: Pinturas (solo exhibition), Museo Rayo, Roldanillo, Colombia
2015
Folding: Line, Space, and Body—Latin American Women Artists Working around Abstraction, The Henrique Faria Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Abstracción y constructivismo: continuidad y ruptura de la modernidad latinoamericana, Galería Durban Segnini, Miami, FL, USA
Modern Art from the Avianca Collection, Museo de Arte de Pereira, Colombia
Members Exhibition, National Arts Club, New York, NY, USA
Fanny Sanin En Abstracto (solo exhibition), Museo Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia
Referent Forms: Colombian Masters, Beta Galería, Bogotá, Colombia
2014
Colecciones en la colección, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia
Masters, Galería El Museo, Bogotá, Colombia
3,000 Years of Geometry: featuring pre-Colombian art, work by Fanny Sanin, Elizabeth Jobim, Emilio Sanchez, Alicia Ehni, Frederico Sève Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Herland – 8 women artists from the collection invite 8 women artists, Deutsche Bank, New York, NY, USA
Objects, The Minnesota Museum of American Art (MMAA), St. Paul, MN, USA
Kineticism and Geometry, Galería Alonso Garcés, Bogotá, Colombia
Sala Modernidades, Museo Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia
Remembering Grau, Julio Mario Santo Domingo Library, Bogotá, Colombia
Silencio, rumor, grito, Museo de Arte Moderno of México City, México City, México
“AVIANCA” Art Collection, Museo Rayo, Roldanillo, Colombia
Constellations, Constructivism, Internationalism and the Latin-American Vanguard,Museo de San Pedro, Puebla, Mexico
2013
Collections in the Museum’s Collection, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia
Ibero-american Art, Centro Español, New York, NY, USA
Classics, experimentals and radicals: Itineraries in Colombian Art 1950-1980, Art Collection, Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia
Pan American Modernism: Avant-Garde in Latin America and the US, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
Maestros colombianos, The Galería El Museo, Bogotá, Colombia
Grau y sus amigos, The Galería El Museo, Bogotá, Colombia
The Quinta Galería, Bogotá, Colombia
13 mujeres artistas colombianas, The Museo de Arte Moderno, Barranquilla, Colombia
Work on Paper, Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela
Formations, Federico Seve Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Marvelous Real: Colombia through the Vision of its Artists, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, D.C., USA
Grau and his Friends, Quinta Galería, Bogotá, Colombia
Avianca Collection, Museo Zenú de Arte Contemporáneo, Montería, Colombia
Barcodes: Merging Identity and Technology, Soledad Salomé, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD, USA
68,70,72. Bienales de Arte Clotejer, Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
Visión de Arte Latino/Americano, Las Cortes de Cadiz: 200 Years of Identity, Instituto Cervantes, New York, NY, USA
Colombian Masters, El Museo Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia
2012
Fanny Sanin Drawings and Studies 1960 to Now (solo exhibition), Frederico Seve Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Abstracción y Geometria, Colección FEMSA, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores, Monterrey, Mexico
2011
Trayectorias V: una explosión de color—a la memoria de Rosa Sanín, Centro Cultural Uniandinos, Bogotá, Colombia
The Art in Embassies program of the U.S. Department of State presents an exhibition of American artists at the embassy, San Salvador, El Salvador
Centenary Exhibition: New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA
Introspection: 15 Year Celebration, New Arts Gallery, Litchfield, CT, USA
2010
Fanny Sanin, Discipline in painting and sculpture (with Eduardo Ramirez Villamizar) (solo exhibition), Durban Segnini Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
Fanny Sanín (solo exhibition), Alonso Garcés Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia
Then & Now, Abstraction in Latin American Art from 1950 to Present, art gallery of the Deutsche Bank headquarters, New York, NY, USA
2009
Latin American Visions from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, Henrique Faria Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2008
Fanny Sanin, A Chromatic Journey, 1966 – 2006 (solo exhibition), Latin collector, New York, NY, USA
3 Views of Abstraction (solo exhibition), New Arts Gallery, Litchfield, CT, USA
Becarte, Fundación Dignificando, Bogotá, Colombia
2007
Fanny Sanin, La Struttura Cromatica (solo exhibition), Instituto Italo- LatinoAmericano, Rome, Italy
Abstracción Geométrica, Museo de Arte del Tolima, Ibagué, Colombia
Remarte, Organization of American States, Washington, D.C., USA
Colombian Art from the Collection of the Bogotá Museum of Modern Art, 1960-2000,Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá, Colombia
Geometric Abstraction in Colombia, Galería Mundo, Bogotá, Colombia
2006
Proyecto 40, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Bogotá, Colombia
Geometry and Gesture from the Collection, Museum of Art of the Americas, Washington, D.C., USA
2005
The Chromatic Structures of Fanny Sanin, 1074-2004 (solo exhibition), Colombian Embassy, Washington, D.C., USA
Arte y Diversidad, Alonso Garcés Galería, Bogotá, Colombia
Abstraction and Geometry, Alonso Garcés Galería, Bogotá, Colombia
2004
Concrete Realities (solo exhibition), Latincollector, New York, NY, USA
Latin American Art: Context and Accomplishments, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
2003
Solo exhibition of works on paper, National Arts Club, New York, NY, USA
Two Artists, Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, MD, USA
Solo Dibujo, National Univeristy, Bogotá, Colombia
Beyond the Line, Alonso Garcés Galería, Bogotá, Colombia
2002
Homage to Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar, Diners Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia
2001
Contemporary Colombian Artists: Four Perspectives, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, USA
Art, Memory and Society, National Archives, Bogotá, Colombia
Permanent Collection, Inaugural Exhibition, Museo de Arte Abstracto, Zacatecas, Mexico
2000
Color and Symmetry - Retrospective Exhibition 1987-1999 (solo exhibition), Luis Angel Arango Library, Bogotá́, Avianca Cultural Center, Barranquilla, Colombia
1998
Abstract Art in Colombia, Museum of Art, National University, Bogotá, Colombia
1997
Colors, Contrasts, and Cultures, Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT, USA
Rethinking Geometry, Yale University – Art Assets, New York, NY, USA
Crossing Borders, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, NY, USA
1996
(solo exhibition), Antioquia Museum, Medellín, Colombia
Preserving the Past, Securing the Future, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., USA
1995
Latin American Women Artists 1915-1995, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI; Phoenix Art Museum, AZ; Denver Art Museum, CO; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Center for Fine Arts, Miami, FL, USA
Reconstructivism: New Geometric Paintings in New York, Space 504, New York, NY, USA
1994
(solo exhibition), Garcés Velasquez Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia
Latin American Artists in Washington Collections, Inter-American Development Bank Cultural Center, Washington, D.C., USA
1993
Latin America and the Caribbean in Contemporary Painting, Interamerican Bank for Development, Hamburg, Germany
1992
From Torres-Garcia to Soto, Art Museum of the Americas (AMA), Washington, D.C., USA
Six Latin American Women Artists, Center Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Small Works on Paper by Outstanding Colombian Artists, 1942-1992, Colombian Consulate Art Gallery, Washington, D.C., USA
1991
(solo exhibition), InterAmerican Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL, USA
1990
(solo exhibition), Greater Lafayette Museum of Art, IN, USA
The Reductive Image, Andrea Marquit Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA
Homage to the Square, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Anthology: Works from the Permament Collection, Biblioteca Luís Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia
1989
Latin American Artists, Bloomfield College, NJ, USA
The Woman Artist, Alfred Wild Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia
3 Decades of Uniandes Art, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia
6AT6 – A Collective of Contemporary Colombian Art, Rempire Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
1988
From Bogotá to Santa Fe; Bogotá 450 Years, Acosta Valencia Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia
1987
Retrospective Exhibition (solo exhibition), Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá, Colombia
Traveling Retrospective Exhibition (solo exhibition), Avianca Cultural Center, Barranquilla; Museum of Modern Art, Medellín; Museum of Modern Art, Cartagena, Colombia
1986
(solo exhibition), Chamber of Commerce, Cali, Colombia
(solo exhibition), Garcés Velasquez Gallery, Bogotá́, Colombia
(solo exhibition), Schiller-Wapner Gallery, New York, NY, USA
II La Habana Biennial, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana, Cuba
Into the Mainstream, Jersey City Museum, NJ, USA
In Homage to Ana Mendieta, Zeus/Trabia Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1985
One Hundred Years of Colombian Art, Inaugural exhibition, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO), Colombia; Imperial Palace, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Centro Cultural São Paulo, Brazil; Organizzazione internazionale italio-latino americana, Rome, Italy; Centro Cultural Avianca, Barranquilla, Colombia
Geometric Abstraction in Latin American Art 1914-1984, CDS Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Inaugural Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York, NY, USA
The Language of Color, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bogotá, Colombia
Visual Cross-Currents: Latin American Artists Living in New York, Art Consult International Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
Women in Fine Arts, Museo de Arte Moderno Bogotá (MAMBO), Colombia
Marta Traba: Her Vision of Art in Colombia, Museo de Arte Moderno Bogotá (MAMBO), Colombia
Latin Amerian Artists in New York, Art Consult Gallery, Panama City, Panama
5 Abstract Artists, Garcés Velásquez Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia
3rd Latin American Graphic Arts Biennial, Cayman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1984
(solo exhibition), Juan Martin Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
(solo exhibition), Rayo Museum, Roldanillo, Colombia
1983
Colombia: Art of the Studio, Art of the Street, School of Fine Arts, Paris, France
Latin American Women Artists, Central Hall Artists, New York, NY, USA
Artistic Panorama of Graphic Arts in Colombia, El Callejon Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia
Colombian Art Exhibition, Colombian Center, New York, NY, USA
Colombian Artists in the Unicef Collection, Pluma Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia
Cartón de Colombia Exhibition, Museo de Arte Moderno Bogotá (MAMBO), Colombia
1982
(solo exhibition), Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY, USA
(solo exhibition), Garcés Velasquez Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia
25 Years of the Form and Space Movement, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), Santiago, Chile
Women of the Americas, Kouros Gallery and Center for Interamerican Relations, New York, NY, USA
1981
Colombian Art in the 80s, The Rutherford Barnes Collection, Denver, CO, USA
Twentieth Century Colombian Art, Centro Colombo Americano Bogotá (BNC), Colombia
4th Art Biennial, Medellín, Colombia
Monologus, Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY, USA
Colombian Artists, Amparo’s Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
14 Contemporary Latin American Artists, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, NY, USA
Abstract Masters, Iriarte Galley, Bogotá, Colombia
1980
(solo exhibition), Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1979
(solo exhibition), Garcés Velásquez Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia
(solo exhibition), Quintero Gallery, Barranquilla, Colombia
National Drawing ’79, Rutgers University, NJ, USA
Manhattan, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Latin American Art, Juan Martin Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
(solo exhibition), Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, Mexico
1978
(solo exhibition), University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA
(solo exhibition), Long Island University, New York, NY, USA
Variations on Latin Themes in New York, Center for Interamerican Relations, New York, NY, USA
Trends, Cayman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Pan-American Paintings, Ward Gallery, Rochester, NY, USA
Work on Paper, Museo de Artes Gráficas, Maracaibo, Venezuela
Resurgimiento 1978, Inaugural Exhibition, Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, USA
1977
(solo exhibition), Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Magnet/Geometry/Magnet, Cayman Gallery, New York, NY; Interamerican Bank, Washington, D.C., USA
Three Abstract Artists, Taller 5, Bogotá, Colombia
50 Years of Colombian Art, Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba
40 Women Artists, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Bogotá, Colombia
1976
Four Colombian Artists, British Council, Bogotá, Colombia
Iman-New York- Iman, Center for Interamerican Relations, New York, NY, USA; Museo de Ponce, Puerto Rico
Current Colombian Painting, Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
Works on Paper – Women Artists, Brooklyn Museum, NY; Center for the Performing Arts, C.U.N.Y., NY, USA
Young Artists ’75, United Nations Playhouse, New York, NY, USA
1974
3 Abstract Artists, Monte Avila Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia
Colombian Art of Today, Gallery of the Eugenio Mendoza Foundation and the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Caracas, Venezuela
1972
(solo exhibition), National Institute of Culture and Fine Arts, Caracas, Venezuela
Group Show, Women in the Arts, C.W. Post College, Long Island University, New York, NY, USA
3rd Coltejer Art Biennial, Medellín, Colombia
Latinamerican Art, Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
1970
(solo exhibition), House of Culture Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico
2nd Coltejer Art Biennial, Medellín, Colombia
1969
(solo exhibition), Panamerican Union Gallery, Organization of American States, Washington, D.C., USA
1968
(solo exhibition), AIA Gallery, London, UK
1st Iberoamerican Painting Biennial, Medellín, Colombia
Trends 1968, FBA Galleries, London, UK
Collection of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Centro Colombo-Americano, Bogotá, Colombia
1967
(solo exhibition), Museum of Fine Arts, Caracas, Venezuela
1966
(solo exhibition), Colseguros Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia
1965
(solo exhibition), Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá, Colombia
(solo exhibition), Lake House Gallery, National University, Mexico City, Mexico
(solo exhibition), Turok-Wasserman Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
(solo exhibition), Technological Institute of Monterrey, Architecture Department, Monterrey, Mexico
1964
(solo exhibition), Modern Art Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico
AGPA – Cartón de Venezuela Collection, Caracas, Venezuela
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin Collection, OH, USA
Angel-Gómez Foundation, Medellín, Colombia
ARCO Collection, Denver, CO, USA
Avianca Collection, Bogotá, Colombia
Banco de la República of Colombia
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, USA
Biblioteca Luís Ángel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia
Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France
Chemical Bank Collection, New York, NY,USA
Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, USA
Comindustria, Palmira, Colombia
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, Washington, D.C., USA
Davis Museum at Wellesley College, MA, USA
Diane and Bruce Halle Collection, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, USA
Gallery of Latin American Art, Krakow, Poland
Greater Lafayette Museum of Art, Lafayette, IN, USA
Icetex Collection, Bogotá, Colombia
Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
Instituto Nacional de Cultura y Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Inter-American Bank, Washington, D.C., USA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), CA, USA
Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN, USA
Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
Museo de Arte, Ibagué, Colombia
Museo de Arte, Popayán, Colombia
Museo de Arte Abstracto Manuel Felguérez, Zacatecas, Mexico
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Bogotá, Colombia
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Monterrey, Mexico
Museo de Arte de la Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia
Museo de Arte del Tolima, Ibagué, Colombia
Museo de Arte Moderno Ramírez Villamizar, Pamplona, Colombia
Museo de Arte Moderno, Barranquilla, Colombia
Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia
Museo de Arte Moderno, Cartagena, Colombia
Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellín, Colombia
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
Museo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, USA
Museo La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia
Museo Municipal de Artes Gráficas, Maracaibo, Venezuela
Museo Nacional del Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
Museo Rayo, Roldanillo, Colombia
Museum of Art of the Americas, Washington, D.C., USA
Museum of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), TX, USA
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., USA
New Orleans Museum of Art, LA, USA
New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA
Pinacoteca de Nuevo León, Monterrey, México
Puerto Rico Institute of Culture, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Sidney Lewis Collection, Richmond, VA, USA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., USA
Tate, London, UK
Taller 5, Bogotá, Colombia
The Art Museum of the Americas (AMA), Washington, D.C., USA
Unicef Collection, Bogotá, Colombia
Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art, Colchester, UK
Valencia Athenaeum, Venezuela
Window South Collection, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, NJ, USA
From her inviting, well-ordered studio overlooking upper Manhattan and illuminated by northern light, the painter Fanny Sanín slides open the drawer of a large flat file brimming with decades of work. She locates the folder containing a series of studies for a painting, Acrylic No. 1, 2015, protectively interleaved with glassine paper. Together we unwrap and examine these intriguing visual experiments, each revealing a thinking phase in the process of incrementally solving the grand puzzle of composing a work of art. Since the mid-1970s Sanín has prepared for every painting on canvas through multiple exploratory studies—in pencil, ink, acrylic and collage—to analyze possible variations in composition, color and atmosphere. Their intimate scale, often no bigger than 12 inches in either direction, are improvisationally realized with the intention of cultivating surprise, then clarity in the resolution that she wants to achieve. The studies are then translated into untitled acrylics (acrylic paintings on canvas) or compositions (acrylic paintings on paper). Giving specific titles to the paintings would limit their open-ended nature, a quality that the artist believes is essential to the integration of the elements of painting, and the viewer’s freedom to experience it. [Click Download PDF for Full Article]
A new building at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston showcases work by Latin American and Latino artists, many of whom are rarely shown in the United States. On the eve of the opening of the new building, here are six artists and works selected by Ms. Ramírez that may come as a discovery to visitors.
Colombian-born painter Fanny Sanín (born 1938) has dedicated a long, prolific career to the exploration of geometric abstraction; her oeuvre is characterized by large-scale canvases depicting hard-edge geometric compositions in vibrant color configurations. Over the past five decades, Sanín has exhibited widely, mainly in Latin America and the United States (where she has lived since the 1970s, in New York), positioning herself as one of Latin America’s most extraordinary colorists.
This publication is a long-overdue comprehensive monograph on this pioneering painter. Featuring contributions from prominent academics and curators such as Beverly Adams, Jay Oles and Edward J. Sullivan, the book contextualizes Sanín’s work within international geometric abstraction and offers a glimpse into the artist’s rigorous working process. It surveys her entire career, from her energetic abstractions of the 1960s through the evolution and continual refinement of her ongoing commitment to concrete abstraction.
