Nationality Colombian Books Fanny Sanin | Movement Geometric abstraction | |
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Born 1938 Bogota, Colombia Education University of Los Andes, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Chelsea College of Arts | ||
Fanny san n an artist profile filmed by gerardo reyes
Fanny Sanín Sader (born 1938) is a Colombian born artist from Bogotá who resides in New York City. The daughter of Gabriel Sanín Tobón and Fanny Sader Guerra, 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.
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- Fanny san n an artist profile filmed by gerardo reyes
- Recorrido por la obra de fanny san n en el museo nacional
- Education and training
- Influences
- Awards
- Exhibitions
- References
She was awarded an Honoris Causa de Magíster en Artes (honorary master's degree of art) by University of Antioquia in February, 2015.
Recorrido por la obra de fanny san n en el museo nacional
Education and training
She graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Los Andes in 1960 in 1960. She continued her studies in the areas of printmaking and art history at the University of Illinois. While living in London in the late 1960s, she studied engraving at the Chelsea School of Art.
Influences
Specific influences which she has cited include Ellsworth Kelly, Wassily Kandinsky, and Henri Matisse.
Awards
Exhibitions
In 1993 her painting, Acrylic No. 6, was added to the Art Museum of the Americas's Permanent Collection. Some of her other works have been added to the permanent collections of the Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Museo de Arte Abstracto Manuel Felguérez (2003), Museo del Barrio de Nueva York (2011), National Museum of Women in the Arts (2011), Museo La Tertulia (2013), and the Museo Nacional de Colombia (2015).
Among the temporary exhibits in which she has participated are the Pinta Art Show (2007) and the Durban Segnini Gallery's Abstracción y Constructivismo: Continuidad y ruptura de la modernidad Latinoamericana (2015).
