Fanny Sanín
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Born in Bogotá, Colombia, lives and works in New York, NY.
Chronology
1956-60 Degree in Fine Arts, University of the Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
1962-63 Graduate studies in printmaking and art history, University of Illinois, Urbana
1963 Moves to Monterrey, Mexico?Awarded the VIII November Salon Prize, Monterrey, Mexico
1966 For the next 3 years lives in London
1967 Studies in printmaking at the Chelsea School of Art and Central School of Art, London Selected in open competition among 1500 artists working in Great Britain to participate in the I Edinburgh Open 100, Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland
1969 Moves back to Monterrey, Mexico
1970 Receives the Medellín Award II Coltejer Art Biennial, Medellín , Colombia
1971 Takes up residence in New York where she continues to reside to date
1979 Selected to represent Colombia at the XV International Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1985 Receives the Canadian Club Award, Mira: The Canadian Club Hispanic Art Tour, Museo del Barrio, New York
1993 Receives the Colombia Award in Art, for contributions to the arts, given to Colombians living abroad, Miami
2001 Admitted as member of the National Arts Club, New York
2006 Receives the Colombia External Excellence Award given to Colombians who have excelled in their careers in the USA, Miami
2007 Awarded an Honorable Mention, Members Exhibition, National Arts Club, New York
2011 Invited to design the official poster for the XXVIII Bogotá Film Festival
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011 (Upcoming -May), Frederico Seve Gallery, New York
2010 Discipline in painting and sculpture (with Eduardo Ramirez Villamizar), Durban Segnini Gallery, Miami,Fl;, catalogue, essay by Carlos M. Luis
Fanny Sanín, Alonso Garcés Galería, Bogotá, Colombia; essay by M Belén Sáez de Ibarra
2008 Fanny Sanín, A Chromatic Journey, 1966 – 2006, latincollector, New York, essay by Monica Espinel
2007 Fanny Sanín, La Struttura Cromatica, Instituto Italo-LatinoAmericano, Rome, Italy, essay by Felix Angel
2005 The Chromatic Structures of Fanny Sanín, 1974-2004, Colombian Embassy, Washington, DC, essay by Felix Angel
2004 latincollector, New York; catalogue, essay by Edward Sullivan
2003 National Arts Club, New York
Gomez Gallery, Baltimore; catalogue, essay by Clayton Kirking
2000 Color and Symmetry - Retrospective Exhibition 1987-1999, German Rubiano, Curator, Luis Angel Arango Library, Bogotá, catalogue, essay by German Rubiano and Jose Ignacio Roca; Avianca Cultural Center, Barranquilla
1996 Antioquia Museum, Medellín, Colombia, catalogue, essays by Maria Elvira Iriarte and Libe de Zulategui
1994 Garcés Velasquez Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia, catalogue, essay by Richard Humphrey
1991 InterAmerican Art Gallery, Sheldon Lurie, Curator, Miami-Dade Community College,
Miami, FL, catalogue, essay by Donald Goodall
1990 Greater Lafayette Museum of Art, Lafayette, Indiana, catalogue, essay, Sharon Theobald
1987 Retrospective Exhibition, John Stringer, Curator, Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá, Colombia, catalogue, essays by John Stringer and Gloria Zea
Traveling Retrospective Exhibition, Avianca Cultural Center, Barranquilla; Museum of Modern Art, Medellín; Museum of Modern Art, Cartagena, Colombia
1986 Chamber of Commerce, Cali, Colombia
Garcés Velasquez Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia
Schiller-Wapner Gallery, New York, catalogue, essay by Mario Amaya
1984 Juan Martin Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
Rayo Museum, Roldanillo, Colombia
1982 Phoenix Gallery, New York, catalogue, essay by Peter Frank
Garcés Velasquez Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia
1980 Phoenix Gallery, New York, catalogue, essay by Ida E. Rubin
1979 Garcés Velasquez Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia
Quintero Gallery, Barranquilla, Colombia
Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, Mexico, catalogue, essay by Fernando Gamboa
1978 University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
Long Island University, New York
1977 Phoenix Gallery, New York, catalogue, essay by Carla Gottlieb
1972 National Institute of Culture and Fine Arts, Caracas, Venezuela
1970 House of Culture Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico
1969 Panamerican Union Gallery (OAS), Washington, D.C.
1968 AIA Gallery, London, England
1967 Museum of Fine Arts, Caracas, Venezuela, catalogue, essay by German Rubiano
1966 Colseguros Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia
1965 Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá, Colombia
Lake House Gallery, National University, Mexico City, Mexico
Turok-Wasserman Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
Technological Institute of Monterrey, Architecture Department, Monterrey, Mexico
1964 Modern Art Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 (upcoming - April), New York Public Library, New York, NY
Trajectories V: An Explosion of Color, Uniandinos Cultural Center, Bogotá, Colombia
Permanent Collection, El Museo del Barrio, New York
Art in Embassies Program, American Embassy, San Salvador, El Salvador
2010 Art in America, Palacio de la Moneda, Santiago de Chile, Chile
Benefit Auction, Conexión Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
Then & Now, Abstract Art from Latin America from 1950 to Present, Deutsche Bank, NY
Pinta Art Fair, latincollector, New York & London
2009 The Line is a Sign, latincollector, New York, NY
Geometric Abstract Works: The Latin American Vision from the 1950s, 60s and 70s, Henrique Faria Fine Art, New York
Pinta Art Fair, latincollector, New York
2008 ArteAmericas Art Fair, latincollector, Miami
Pinta Art Fair, latincollector, New York
2007 Abstracción Geométrica, Museo de Arte del Tolima, Ibagué, Colombia
Pinta Art Fair, latincollector, New York
Artbo Art Fair, Alonso Garcés Galería, Bogotá, Colombia
Balelatina Art Fair, latincollector, Basel, Switzerland
Remarte, Organization of American States, Washinton, DC
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
latincollector, New York
2006 Members Exhibition, National Arts Club, New York
Proyecto 40, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Bogotá, Colombia
Geometry and Gesture from the Collection, Museum of Art of the Americas, Washington, DC
2005 Members Exhibition, National Arts Club, New York
Arte y Diversidad, Alonso Garcés Galería, Bogotá, Colombia
Abstraction and Geometry, Alonso Garcés Galería, Bogotá, Colombia
Benefit Auction, National Museum, Bogotá, Colombia
Selected Paintings and Photographs by Gallery Artists, Latincollector, New York
2004 Latin American Art: Contexts and Accomplices, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England
2003 Members Show, National Arts Club, New York
Beyond the Line, Alonso Garcés Galería, Bogotá, Colombia
Permanent Collection, Museum of Art of the Americas, Washington, DC
2002 Homage to Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar, Diners Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia
2001 Contemporary Colombian Artists: Four Perspectives, Carol Ann Lorenz, Curator, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
Art, Memory and Society, Lilia Gallo, Curator, Nacional Archives, Bogotá
Permanent Collection,, Inaugural Exhibition, Museo de Arte Abstracto Manuel Felguerez, Zacatecas, México
1999 Virtual Portfolio, University Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
XX Century Colombian Art, Ana Sokoloff, Curator, Christies, London
ICCC Benefit Art Auction, The National Arts Club, New York
Abstract Art in Colombia, Marta Rodriguez, Curator, Museum of Art, National University, Bogotá
1998 Art in the 50 Years of the University of the Andes, Christies, Bogotá, Colombia
1997 Colors: Contrasts & Cultures, Benjamin Ortiz, Curator,The Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CN
Rethinking Geometry, Rina Carvajal, Curator, Yale University – Art Assets, New York
Crossing Borders, Benjamin Ortiz and Gustavo Valdez, Jr., Curators, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, N.Y.
1996 Preserving the Past, Securing the Future, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Latin American Women Artists 1915-1995, Gerry Biller, Curator, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Traveling exhibition: Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ; Denver Art Museum; Museo de las Americas, Denver, CO; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; Center for Fine Arts, Miami, FL
1995 Reconstructivism: New Geometric Paintings in New York, Peter Frank, Curator, Space 504, New York
1994 Latin American Artists in Washington Collections, Felix Angel, Curator, Inter-American Development Bank Cultural Center, Washington, DC
1993 Latin America and the Caribbean in Contemporary Painting, Interamerican Bank for Development, Hamburg, Germany
1992 From Torres-Garcia to Soto, Belgica Rodriguez, Curator, Art Museum of the Americas,
Washington, D.C
Six Latin American Women Artists, Richard Humphrey and Robert Metzger, Curators, Center Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
1991 Bogotá International Art Fair,, Negret Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia
1990 The Reductive Image, Andrea Marquit Fine Arts, Boston
Homage to the Square, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York
1989 Latin American Artists, Liza Rabinowitz, Curator, Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, New Jersey
3 Decades of Uniandes Art, Maria Teresa Guerrero, Curator, Luis Angel Arango Library, Bogotá, Colombia
1988 From Bogotá to Santa Fe; Bogotá 450 Years, Acosta Valencia Gallery, Bogotá, Colombia
1986 II La Habana Biennial, National Museum of Fine Arts, La Habana, Cuba
Into the Mainstream, Giulio Blanc, Curator, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
1985 One Hundred Years of Colombian Art, Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá, Colombia.
Works in Museums and Private Collections
AGPA – Carton de Venezuela Collection, Caracas, Venezuela
Angel-Gomez Foundation, Medellín, Colombia
Antioquia Museum, Medellín, Colombia
ARCO Collection, Denver, CO
Avianca Collection, Bogotá, Colombia
Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, France
Comindustria, Palmira, Colombia
Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, Washington, DC
Chemical Bank Collection, New York, NY
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Gallery of Latinamerican Art, Cracovia, Poland
Greater Lafayette Museum of Art, West Lafayette, IN
Icetex Collection, Bogotá. Colombia
Inter-American Bank, Washington, DC
Luis Angel Arango Library, Bogotá, Colombia
Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN
Municipal Museum of Graphic Arts, Maracaibo, Venezuela
Museum of Abstract Art Manuel Felguerez, Zacatecas, Mexico
Museum of Art of the Americas, Washington, DC
Museum of Art of the National University, Bogotá, Colombia;
Museum of Art, Monterrey, Mexico
Museum of Art, Popayan, Colombia
Museum of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Museum of Contemporary Art, Bogotá, Colombia
Museum of Fine Arts, Caracas, Venezuela
Museum of Modern Art Ramirez Villamizar, Pamplona, Colombia
Museum of Modern Art, Barranquilla, Colombia
Museum of Modern Art, Bogotá, Colombia
Museum of Modern Art, Cartagena, Colombia
Museum of Modern Art, Medellín, Colombia
Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, Mexico
National Institute of Culture and Fine Arts, Caracas, Venezuela
National Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico City, Mexico
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Pinacoteca de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico
Puerto Rico Institute of Culture, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Rayo Museum, Roldanillo, Colombia
Sidney Lewis Collection, Richmond, Virginia
Taller 5, Bogotá, Colombia
Unicef Collection, Bogotá, Colombia
University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art, Colchester, England
University of the Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
Valencia Athenaeum, Valencia, Venezuela
Window South Collection, Palo Alto, California
Books and Exhibition Catalogues
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Clara Database of Women Artists, www.nmwa.org/clara
University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art, http://www.ueclaa.org/ueclaaOnline
2006 Puerto, Cecilia, Latin American Women Artists, A Bibliographical Archive, www.rohan.sdsu.edu/~cpuerto/biblio.htm
2004 Marquis, Who’sWho in American Art
Marciano, Eric, Fanny Sanín, El Ojo Critico, (presented at the Bogota Film Festival, 2004), New York, NY
2003 Fielding, Mantle, Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo
Shipp, Steve, Latin American and Caribbean Artists of the Modern Era, McFarland & Company
2002 Heller, Nancy G., Why a Painting is Like a Pizza – A Guide to Understanding and Enjoying Modern Art, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey
Pietrowski, Bogdan, Ed., Pensamiento y Cultura, Universidad de la Sabana, Bogotá, Colombia
Riggs, Thomas, Ed., St. James Guide to Hispanic Artists, Essay by Francine Birbragher, St. James Press, Farmington Hills, MI
2001 Montealegre, Samuel, La Piccola Treccani, Dizionario Enciclopedico, Primo Supplemento, Roma
Ocampo, Alfredo, Farewell, Poems in American English (Cover: painting by Fanny Sanín)
2000 Banco de la Republica, Economic Indicators, (Cover: painting by Fanny Sanín)
1999 Barlow, Margaret, Women Artists, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates
Henkes, Robert, Latin American Women Artists of the United States, McFarland & Co., Jefferson, North Carolina
1997 Gallo, Lilia, Ensayos (Cover: painting by Fanny Sanín), Instituto de Investigaciones Esteticas, Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia
Rubiano, German, El Dibujo en Colombia, Editorial Planeta, Bogotá, Colombia
1996 Sullivan, Edward, Ed., Latin American Art in the Twentieth Century, Ivonne Pini, Phaidon Press, London, England
1995 Heller, Jules and Heller, Nancy G., North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century, A Biographical Dictionary (Cover: painting by Fanny Sanín), Garland Publishing, New York, London
Zea, Gloria, El Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Una Experiencia Singular, Museo de
Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia
1994 Traba, Marta, Arte de América Latina 1900-1980, Interamerican Bank, Washington, DC,
Zulategui, Libe de, Museo de Antioquia, Obras de su Colección, Tomo I, Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
1993 Amaral, Aracy, Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1990 Antología, obras en la Colección Permanente, Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Bogotá, Colombia
Calderón Schrader, Camilo, 50 Años, Salón Nacional de Artistas, Colcultura, Bogotá, Colombia
1988 Krantz, Les, The New York Art Review, American References, Chicago, IL
1986 Von Nacher, Giancarlo, El Mundo del Arte, Monterrey, México
1985 Bayón, Damián, Ed., Arte Moderno en América Latina, Taurus, Madrid, Spain
Calendar: Contemporary Women Artists 1985, Bo-Tree Productions, Palo Alto, CA
Directorio, Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia, 1985
Gil Tovar, Francisco, Arte Colombiano, Plaza & Janés, Bogotá, Colombia
Serrano, Eduardo, Cien Años de Arte Colombiano, Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia
1984 Márceles Daconte, Eduardo, La crítica y las Tendencias de la Pintura en Colombia, ARCO 84, Madrid
Traba, Marta, Marta Traba - Museo de Arte Moderno, Editorial Planeta, Bogotá, Colombia
1983 Peña de Kahn, Gloria, Panorama Artístico Colombiano - Artes Gráficas - Galería de Arte El Callejón, Litografía Arco, Bogotá, Colombia
1981 Álvarez del Real, María Elvira, Almanaque Mundial: Panorama de Artes Plásticas, Ed. Américas, Panama, Panama
Rubiano, Germán, Manual de Historia de Colombia - Tomo II Las Artes en el Siglo XXI, Colcultura, Bogotá, Colombia
Titus, William H., Photographing Works of Art; Watson GuptillThe Critic’s Eye, New York, NY
1980 Ortega, Carmen, Diccionario de Artistas en Colombia, Editorial Plaza & Janés, Bogotá, Colombia
1976 Rubiano, Germán, Historia del Arte Colombiano, Salvat Editores , Bogotá, Colombia
1975 Collins, J., Women Artists in America, II, University of Tennessee, Chatanooga, TN
1974 Ragon, Michel Ragon & Michel Seuphor, L’Art Abstrait 1945/1970, Vol. IV, Maeght Editeur, Paris, France, Thursday, January 1st, 2009
Selection of articles and reviews
Aguilar, José Hernán, Tres décadas de arte uniandino”, El Tiempo, Bogotá, September 9, 1989
Aguilar Ramírez, Alberto, La geometría, estructura y el color en la obra de Fanny Sanín, Uno Más Uno, Ciudad de México, enero 4, 1979.
Ahlander, Leslie Judd, Fanny Sanín, Art Nexus, Bogotá, Colombia, 1991
Álvarez, Nolasco, Fanny Sanín, El Papel Literario, El Nacional, Caracas, April 30, 1967
Amores, José Emilio, Fanny, Tribuna de Monterrey, Monterrey, México, 1976
Angel, Felix, Latin American Visions –I, Arte en Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, 1987
Badajoz, Joaquin, “La realidad estructurada de Fanny Sanin y Eduardo Ramirez Villamizar”, El Nuevo Herald, Sunday, May 23rd 2010
Barrett Strech, Bonnie, Six Latin American Women Artists – Humphrey Gallery, Art News, New York, vol. 91, No. 9, pp. 138-139, November, 1992
Bayón, Damián, Lo que Pienso de la Pintura Colombiana, Revista Diners, Año XXII, Bogotá, Colombia, November, 1986
Berecz, Agnes, “Fanny Sanin – Latincollector”, Art in America , January 31st, 2009
Briceño, José Hernán, Los Planteamientos Cromáticos de Fanny Sanín, El Nacional, Caracas, October 30, 1972
Buonagurio, Edgar, Fanny Sanín, Arts Magazine, New York, NY, December, 1977
Burland Cottie, Fanny Sanín, Arts Review, London, England, September, 1968
Burnside, Madeleine, Fanny Sanín, East Side Express, New York, NY, December 8, 1977
Cage, Edward, The I Edinburgh Open 100, The Scotsman, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 25, 1967
Calzadilla, Juan, El Salon Nacional, El Espectador, October, Bogotá, 1970
Cerqueira Lemos, Fernando, A Geometria de Fanny Sanín, Folha de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, October 7, 1979
Cotter, Holland, Concrete Realities: The Art of Carmen Herrera, Fanny Sanín and Mira Schendel, The New York Times, May 14, 2004
Cotter, Holland, Reaffirming Spirituality at El Museo del Barrio, The New York Times, April 21, 1995
Crespo de la Serna, Jorge J., Fanny Sanín, Novedades, México City, México, July 23, 1965
Driben, Lelia, Fanny Sanín, Museo de Arte Moderno, Artes Visuales, México City, México, 1979
Drucks, Achim, “Then & Now, Abstract Art from Latin America from 1950 to Present”, Art Mag, May 24, 2010
Dubs, Jason, “Fanny Sanin – Latincollector” ArtNexus, January 1st, 2009
Engel, Walter, 1er Salón de Artistas Jóvenes Intercol, Magazine Dominical, El Espectador, Bogotá, August 9, 1964
Escallon, Ana Maria, La obra plástica de Fanny Sanín: Geometría lírica, El Espectador, Bogotá, Colombia, June 21, 1984
Folch, Mireya, Fanny Sanín, El Sol de México, México City, México, 1979
Frank, Peter, Reconstructing Constructivism, Soho Arts Magazine New York, NY October, 1996
Gallo de Bravo, Lilia, Exposición de Fanny Sanín, El Tiempo, Bogotá, Colombia, July 17, 1979
Garcia, Maria Margarita, Trazos Esenciales, Revista Diners, Septiembre 20, 2002
Gil, Javier, Artistas Abstractos en Casa Negret, Arte en Colombia, p. 165, Bogotá, 1989
Gil Tovar, Francisco, Depurar y sensibilizar la geometría, El Tiempo, Bogotá, Colombia, April 29, 1982
Gómez, Fernando, Geometría y Color, Semana, Bogotá, Colombia, March 20, 2000
Gómez Palacio, Óscar, Fanny Sanín: El tranquilo y ordenado mundo del abstracto geométrico, Vanidades Continental, Miami, Florida, November 13, 1979
Gottlieb, Carla, La Signature au XXe Siecle, Revue de L’Art, Vol. 34, Paris, France, 1976
Guerra, Diego, “Fanny Sanin – Forever Abstract, The artist Fanny Sanin exhibits in bogota after ten years” El Tiempo, March 9th, 2010
Hernández, José, El concreto mundo de la abstracción, El Tiempo, Bogotá, November 26, 1989
Márceles, Eduardo, La Geometría Sensible de Fanny Sanín, Hoy, New York, NY, October 3, 2003
Martinez Celis, Nestor, Fanny Sanín, El Heraldo, Barranquilla, 2000
McNatt, Glenn, Season of Abstraction, The Sun, Baltimore, MD, September 23, 2003
Monsalve, Jaime, Fanny Sanín, Artista Plástica, Revista Cambio, Bogotá, Colombia, November 17, 2003
Montealegre, Samuel, Dizionario Universale Comanducci, Italy, 2003
Natsios, Valerie, Fanny Sanín, New York Arts Journal, New York, NY, February 1982
Nelken, Margarita, Exposición de Fanny Sanín, Excélsior, México City, México, July 23, 1965
Ortiz Gil, Carlos, Fanny Sanín: lo hoy de nuestro tiempo, El Porvenir, Monterrey, México, November 22, 1970
Palmer Poroner, B., The Art of Visual Pleasure, Fanny Sanín, Artspeak, Vol. 1, No. 7, New York, February 28, 1980
Parker, Robert A., Artistas Latinoamericanas, Revista Avianca, No. 57, Bogotá, Colombia, December,1981
Pignalosa, Maria Cristina, Las Geometrías de Fanny Sanín, El Tiempo, May 17, 2005
Pignalosa, Cristina, Abstracta de Toda la Vida, El Tiempo, March 7, 2000
Pontual, Roberto, 15ª Bienal de Sao Paulo: O Visivel, Jornal do Brasil, Río de Janeiro, Brazil, October 10, 1979
Plumer, Leslie, Fanny Sanín, New York Arts Journal, New York, NY, March, 1980
Ramírez, Alister, Arte Colombiano en New York, Lecturas Dominicales, El Tiempo, Bogotá, July 27, 1997
Raynor, Vivien, A Show of Latin Americans’ Work, The New York Times, New York, NY, March, 1981
Roca, Jose, Fanny Sanín, Art Nexus, Bogotá, Colombia, 2004
Roca, Jose, El Estado de las Cosas, El Tiempo, March 14, 2000
Rodriguez, Marta, Fanny Sanín, Art Nexus, Bogotá, Colombia, 2000
Rubiano Caballero, German, “Solo Show: Fanny Sanin”, Art Nexus, July 16, 2010
Rubiano Caballero, Germán, Fanny Sanín, Art Nexus, No. 13, Bogotá, Colombia, July, 1994
Ruiz Gómez, Dario, Fanny y Rosa Sanín, Museo de Antioquia, Art Nexus, No. 22, Bogotá, Colombia, December, 1996
Russell, John, Art: Fanny Sanín, The New York Times, New York, NY, February 19, 1982
Sello, Dr. Gottfried, ‘Malerinnen’: Fanny Sanín, Brigitte, Germany, October, 1981
Serrano, Eduardo, Fanny: De New York a Bogotá, Semana, No. 1, Bogotá, Colombia, May 11, 1982
Stringer, John, Fanny Sanín, Salón Cultural de Avianca, Revista Avianca, No. 100, Bogotá, 1987
Traba, Marta, La exposición de Fanny Sanín, El Tiempo, Bogotá, Colombia, September 4, 1966
Traba, Marta, Tres Pintores latinoamericanos en New York y Washington, Magazine Al Día, Bogotá, Colombia, May 4, 1982
Valencia Diago, Gloria, La primera exposición de Fanny Sanín en Bogotá, El Tiempo, Bogotá, Colombia, August 15, 1965
Vestrini, Miyo, Fanny Sanín en el Museo de Bellas Artes, La República, Caracas, Venezuela, April 14, 1967
Vielle, Jean Pierre, Estructura y Pintura: Monólogo-Tríptico con Tres Cuadros de Fanny Sanín, El Porvenir, Monterrey, México, November 22, 1970
Von Nacher, Giancarlo, Fanny Sanín y la nueva abstracción, El Porvenir, Monterrey, México, November 22, 1970
Zimmer, William, A Latin American Show at the Jersey Museum, The New York Times, New York, NY, May 18, 1986
Videos and web sites
Morales, Jaime, www.colarte.com, Bogotá, Colombia
Laguado, Henry, Fanny Sanín: Retrospective Video, Producciones Moviola, Bogotá, Colombia, 1994
Lanz, Juan & Umaña, Claudia, Fanny Sanín, Color & Symmetry, arTV Producciones, Bogotá, Colombia, 2000
latincollector, www.latincollector.com
Marciano, Eric, Fanny Sanín: The Critic’s Eye, American Montage, Inc., New York, NY, 2003
Marciano, Eric, Fanny Sanín, El Ojo Critico, (presented at the Bogota Film Festival, 2004), New York,, NY, 2004
Marciano, Eric, Latin American Women Artists, 1915-1995, American Montage, Inc., New York, NY, 1995
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Clara Database of Women Artists, www.nmwa.org/clara
Puerto, Cecilia, Latin American Women Artists, A Bibliographical Archive, www-rohan.sdsu.edu/~cpuerto/biblio.htm, 2006
Sasson, Mayer, Retrospectiva de Fanny Sanín; Museo de Arte Moderno, Bogotá, Colombia, 1987
University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art, http://www.ueclaa.org/ueclaaOnline
Born in Bogotá, Colombia, lives and works in New York, NY.
Colombian-born painter Fanny Sanin is one of the greatest living color field painters.
Fanny Sanin graduated in 1960 from the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota. She traveled to London where she studied printmaking. She began her artistic life as an abstract painter, but free in the sense that in her works you could not clearly recognize geometric figures.
Sanín moved from her native Colombia to New York, where she has been based since 1971, and made the transition from gestural to geometric abstraction.
She participated in the National Salon of Artists of 1962 (also in 1974) and then moved to Mexico, where she began making a name for herself. Soon after she was invited by Traba to exhibit in Bogota.
In Colombia, she has participated in solo and group exhibitions in different cities.
In 1968, she began a series of hard-edge canvases, embracing the discipline of geometric abstraction at the moment when its heroic years came to a close in Latin America.
A mid-career retrospective at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá in 1987 provided Sanín the opportunity to reflect on her body of work; this was followed by a reinterpretation and renewal of her previous practice.
Sanin has exhibited her work in 250 group shows and 35 solo or retrospective exhibitions. Sanín was included in the travelling exhibition of Latin American Women Artists 1915-1995, which opened at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
She has also exhibit in Caracas, London and the U.S.