FANNY SANÍN

Watercolor No 7, 1968

Watercolor on paper

Unframed: 15 x 11 inches (38.1 x 27.9 cm)

Framed: 19 ¼ x 15 ½ x 1 ⅝ inches (48.9 x 39.4 x 4.1 cm)

Selected by Julia Trotta 

Fanny Sanin started her professional life in 1960, when she graduated in Fine Arts in Colombia. Around 70 one-person shows and 350 group shows later, she was invited this year to exhibit at the 60th Venice Biennial. A 350-page book on her work Fanny Sanin: The Concrete Language of Color and Structure was published in 2019.

Among recent exhibitions, in 2020 at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts and at Sicardi-Ayers-Bacino gallery in Houston this year. Her work was included in Action – Gesture – Paint, Women Artists and Global Abstraction, 1940-70 held in 2023 at London’s Whitechapel Gallery, with her work on the catalogue cover, that traveled to the Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles, France and to the Kunsthalle Bielefeld in Germany. A major article on this exhibition appeared in the New York Times, highlighting Sanin’s work. Her work was selected for the 2023 inaugural exhibition Inspired Encounters: Women Artists and the Legacies of Modern Art of the David Rockefeller Creative Arts Center, Tarrytown, NY. Her work was featured in the inaugural exhibition of the restored National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington in 2023 and at the Aichi Art Triennial in Japan in 2022. Her work is in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, among others.

In 2015 the Universidad de Antioquia, In Medellin, Colombia, awarded her an honorary doctorate degree in the Arts.