Nicolás Franco
 
 
 

Exhibiciones

 

Monográficos

 

Grey Matter (2025)
English - Spanish | 104 pp | Softcover | 19,5 x 27,9 cm
Published by Fondo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes

NN ENCUENTROS SOLITARIOS CON CUERPOS MELANCOLICOS
Fotografias y textos de Nicolás Franco (2026)
English - Spanish | 112 pages | Hardcover | 21 x 30 cm

Ayer y Hoy (2026)
Spanish | 66 pages | Softcover | 24 x 15 cm

Benditas Ruinas (2026)
Spanish | 48 pages | Softcover | 34 x 24 cm

XYZ (2013)
English - Spanish | 140 pages | Softcover with dust jacket | 24 x 17 cm
Published by Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes

Materia Gris (2023)
Spanish | 48 pages | Softcover | 21 x 15 cm
Published by Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes

Moon, Coal, Idol (2018)
English, Spanish | 272 pages | Hardcover with linen and holographic foil
| 21.5 x 27 cm Published by Fondo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes

La Sábana (2017)
Spanish | 22 pages | Softcover | 20 x 20 cm
Published by Tecnopol.

 

 

 
 
 
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Nicolas Franco
MurMur
Galeria Aninat, Santiago

19.03 - 02.05. 2025

 

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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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EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

 

 

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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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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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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
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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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