Nicolás Franco
 
 
 

Nicolás Franco

Nicolas Franco was born in 1973, in Santiago, where he currently lives and works.

His work has been shown internationally in institutions such as Tate Modern; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; The Centre of Contemporary, Torun; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Santiago; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santiago; Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, Santiago; Museo de Artes Visuales, Santiago; Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz; ; Parque Cultural de Valparaiso; Sala Alcalá 31 Madrid; Centro de Arte La Conservera, Murcia; , 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, Fondo Nacional de la Cultura y las Artes.

Nicolas Franco´s work is present in the collections of Tate Modern, Center of Contemporary Arts Torun (Poland); Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos de Santiago, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santiago; Museo de Artes Visuales de Santiago; Fundación AMA; Fundación Engel, Fundación Larivier, Il Posto, Fundación CASA, Fundación de Artes Visuales; Colección Eduardo Hochschild; Colección Celia Brirbaher, Bogota; 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.


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

 
 

 
 

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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50 AÑOS

SUBTE - Montevideo

 
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50 AÑOS

SUBTE - Montevideo

 
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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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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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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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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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Primeras Letras
Exhibition Views
LIMAC, 2017

 
 
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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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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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Circa

2014
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Parque Forestal
Solo Exhibition

 
 
 
 
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Film Noir

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

 
 
 
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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

2000
scanned 35mm negatives hand transferred to cotton paper
30 parts,
variable dimensions

 
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Afterall

1998-99
Newspaper cut out, silk paper and red pen
103 parts
Variable dimensions

 

La Imagen y su doble
Video still

 
 
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La imagen y su doble

Video stills

 
 
 
 
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Una fiesta extraña y bárbara (parte I)

2015

 
 
 
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