Nicolás Franco
Nicolás Franco
 
 
 

Selected Exhibitions

 
 

Grey Matter

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Santiago, 2023

Ayer y Hoy

Tate Modern, London, 2019 - 2020
Migors Museum, Zurich, 2015
Arco, Solo Project, galería Afa, 2015

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

 
 
 
 

Selected Monographs

 

Gray Matter


English - Spanish
104 pp
Softcover with fold - out pages, and signed printed matter
19,5 x 27,9 cm
Sebastián Vidal Valenzuela, Ariel Florencia Richards, Ana María 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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EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

 

 

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

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

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

 
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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.

 
 
 
 
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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

 
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* Upcoming 2026


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ENCUENTROS SOLITARIOS CON CUERPOS MELANCOLICOS
Fotografias y textos de Nicolás Franco |

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LONESOME ENCOUNTERS
WITH MELANCHOLIC
CORPSES
Photographs and texts by Nicolás Franco

* Upcoming 2026
English - Spanish | 112 pages
Hardcover
22 x 30 cm
Texts: Nicolás Franco

Publisher: TBA

 
 
 
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50 AÑOS

SUBTE - Montevideo

 
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50 AÑOS

SUBTE - Montevideo

 
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Afterall

Solo Exhibition
Galeria Aninat
Santigo

20.03.2020

 
 

 

 
 
 

Resistance Performed
Aesthetic Strategies under Repressive
Regimes in Latin America

Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst; Zürich 2015

 
 
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Gran Sur:
arte contemporáneo chileno en la Colección Engel
sala Alcalá 31
Madrid

 
 
 
 
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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

 
 
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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.



 
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Primeras Letras
Exhibition Views
LIMAC, 2017

 
 
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Parcours de incidents

2019 - ongoing
Pigment ink, acrylic paint, acrylic resin, offset ink, muriatic acid, aluminum plate, aluminum frame
220 x 38 x 3 cm
Colllection Il Posto, Santiago

 
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Phillips Auction London

2017
Pigment ink, modified acrylic resins, acrylic paint and muriatic acid on aluminum mounted on paper
220 x 152 cm.
Private Collection, Berlin,

 
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Treated like Flowers

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

 
 
 
 
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MOON COAL IDOL

2018
English, Spanish | 272 pages
Hardcover with linen and holographic foil
21.5 x 27 cm
With: Heike Munder, Eugenio Dittborn, Ana María Risco, Christian Viveros Fauné, Sebastíán Vidal Valenzuela, Paz López, Patricio Zarate
ISBN: 978-956-393-814-2

 

NN (Carretera del Sol )

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

 
 
 
 
 
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Mellizas

Museo de Artes Visuales, 2014

 

EYES
2014
Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago

 
 

Mellizas

2014

Silkscreen ink on stainless steel mounted on concrete plinth | Serigrafía sobre acero inoxidable montada en plinto de concreto
2 Parts, each 25,5 x 17,7 x 15,7 inches
2 partes de 65 x 45 x 40 cm. c/u

 
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NN (Gallo Blanco)

2014
75 Archival pigment prints on photo paper.
wooden table frames, variable dimensions

 
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Film Noir

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

 
 
 
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Circa

2014
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Parque Forestal
Solo Exhibition

 
 
 
 
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Ni mera forma ni puro contenido |
Neither mere form nor pure content

2009
Museo del Barro, Asunción (2009)

GÉNERO NEGRO
Trienal de Chile.

Museo de arte contemporáneo de Santiago

 
 
 
 
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El carácter Destructivo |
The destructive character

De Ateliers Amsterdam, 2000

 
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Afterall

De Ateliers, Amsterdam 1999

 

La Imagen y su doble
Video still

 
 
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La imagen y su doble

Video stills

 
 
 
 
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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

 
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Una fiesta extraña y bárbara (parte I)

Galería Macchina, Santiago, 2015

 
 
 
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