Fanny Sanín

Colombian born artist from Bogotá (born 1938)

Fanny Sanín

Born	1938 Bogota, Colombia
Education	University of Los Andes University of Illinois Chelsea School of Art
Known for	Painting
Movement	Geometric abstraction
Website	fannysanin.com

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.^[1]

She was awarded an Honoris Causa de Magíster en Artes (honorary master's degree of art) by University of Antioquia in February, 2015.^[2]

Her work has been featured in a volume entitled, Fanny Sanín: The Concrete Language of Color and Structure, which appeared in 2019.^[3]

Education and training

She graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Los Andes in 1960.^[4] She continued her studies in the areas of printmaking and art history at the University of Illinois.^[5]^[6] While living in London in the late 1960s, she studied engraving at the Chelsea School of Art.

Work

Sanín has cited a number of specific influences, including Ellsworth Kelly, Wassily Kandinsky, and Henri Matisse.^[7] Her work is often compared to that of Carmen Herrera and Lygia Clark.

Sanín's work is in several public collections, including the Allen Memorial Art Museum in Oberlin, Ohio, where Sanín donated a painting in 2017. Acrylic No. 1, 2005 was donated by the artist in honor of the scholarly work of Edward J. Sullivan, Helen Gould Sheppard professor of Fine Arts at New York University. Additionally, the museum acquired three studies for this painting: Study for Painting No. 1 (3) 2005, Study for Painting No. 1 (5) 2005, and Study for Painting No. 1 (7) 2005.^[8]

Exhibitions and collections

In 1993 her painting Acrylic No. 6 was added to the permanent collection of the Art Museum of the Americas.^[9] Some of her other works have been added to the permanent collections of the Museo de Arte Abstracto Manuel Felguérez,^[10] National Museum of Women in the Arts,^[11] the Smithsonian American Art Museum,^[12] and the Museo Nacional de Colombia.^[13]

Among the temporary exhibits in which she has participated are the Pinta Art Show (2007)^[14] and the Durban Segnini Gallery's Abstracción y Constructivismo: Continuidad y ruptura de la modernidad Latinoamericana (2015).^[15]

In 2023 her work was included in the exhibition Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970 at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.^[16]

References

^ Cortés Solano, Ana María (June 2015). En Abstracto (in Spanish). Bogotá, Colombia: Museo Nacional de Colombia. p. 3. ISBN 978-958-753-194-7.
^ Mercado, David Alejandro (11 February 2015). "La Universidad de Antioquia homenajea a la maestra Fanny Sanín Sader". El Tiempo (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 July 2015.
^ Sanín, Fanny (2019). Fanny Sanín : the concrete language of color and structure. Adams, Beverly, 1965-, Kirking, Clayton, Oles, James, Rubiano Caballero, Germán, Sims, Patterson, Sokoloff, Ana. Seattle. ISBN 978-0-9996522-9-9. OCLC 1057779173.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Christian, Padilla Peñuela; Germán, Rubiano Caballero (June 2015). En Abstracto (in Spanish). Bogotá, Colombia: Museo Nacional de Colombia. p. 44. ISBN 978-958-753-194-7.
^ "Fanny Sanín". Colarte (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 10 July 2015. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
^ "Fanny Sanín". Durban Segnini Gallery (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 July 2015.
^ Machado Fiorillo, Lorena. "Una vida hecha color". El Espectador (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 July 2015.
^ "Fanny Sanín works acquired by the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio – Fanny Sanin". Retrieved 2019-03-02.
^ "FANNY SANÍN - Arts of the Americas". Organization of American States. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
^ "Fanny Sanín dona nueve obras al Museo Nacional de Colombia". ARTEINFORMADO (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 April 2023.
^ "Fanny Sanín | Artist Profile". National Museum of Women in the Arts. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
^ "Fanny Sanín". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
^ "Fanny Sanín". Museo Nacional de Colombia. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
^ Cotter, Holland (19 November 2007). "Bulletins From a Bustling 'Undiscovered' Land". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
^ "La abstracción y el constructivismo latinoamericano en Miami / Arte Al Limite". Arte Al Limite. 7 July 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
^ "Action, Gesture, Paint". Whitechapel Gallery. Retrieved 23 April 2023.