Ana Tiscornia

  • Throughout Ana Tiscornia’s wall works, collages, assemblages of fragmented furniture and common tools, there exists a tension between order and disorder. In the artist’s words: “In rearranging the various materials I seek a potential poetics—a kind of cartography of social oblivion—that is simultaneously exposing but also recovering scattered fragments of the utopian project.” 

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  • Ana Tiscornia was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1951 and has resided in New York since 1991. She is Professor Emeritus at, SUNY, Old Westbury College. In Uruguay, she studied architecture at the Universidad de la República, Visual Arts with the artist Guillermo Fernandez, and printmaking at Club de Grabado de Montevideo. Her Work includes installation, collage, assemblage, painting, and photography. Tiscornia also works in collaboration with artist Liliana Porter, with whom she has made theatre, video and Art pieces. Ana, has written articles pertaining to the subject of Art for several publications including: Brecha (Uruguay), Atlantica International and El Periodico del Arte (Spain), Art Nexus (Colombia), and is the author of the book Vicissitudes of the Visual Imaginary: Between utopia and fragmented identity on Uruguayan art from 1959 to 1995. Between 1998 and 2015 Tiscornia curated several exhibitions, among them, la Guerra que no hemos visto, a project of the Colombian artist Juan Manuel Echavarria, exhibited at Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota, Colombia.
     
    Among other distinctions, Tiscornia has been awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in (2000); a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (2004), and a Premio Konex Mercosur in (2022). She represented Uruguay in the II and IX Bienal de La Habana, Cuba, and in the III Bienal de Lima, Perú, and participated in the Bienal del Fin del Mundo, Mar del Plata, Argentina. Tiscornia’s work resides in public and private collections and has been widely exhibited in the USA, Latin America, and Europe. Latest shows include: A la Vuelta de la esquina at Galeria Espacio Minimo, Madrid, Spain 2022; Left, Right and Center at Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York, USA 2020; Ana Tiscornia at OMI Architecture Onsite series, Ghent, New York 2018, Colateral o Premeditado, Galeria Nora Fisch, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2017, Des-habitaciones, Galería del Paseo, Lima, Perú 2015; Obra Reciente, Galería Nora Fisch, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2013; El estado de las cosas, Museo Gurvich, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2013; and Paradoxes, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, Nueva York, USA, 2013.
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