Nancy Friedmann-Sanchez

Colombia

She has exhibited in the United States, Spain, Germany, Puerto Rico and Colombia. Her art, anchored in feminism, is nourished by the cultures of North and South America, which merge and pollinate each other in her work. Her work is both a bicultural and transcultural experience. Born and raised in Colombia, the artist emigrated to the United States as an adult. Thus, she proposes an art in two languages that speak to us of the curious and intense experience of physical movement that could be displacement, but that also retains its roots in Colombia. Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez creates hybrid, syncretic visual expressions that reflect the processes resulting from the Conquest but also from the migratory experience.

Her works have been selected to be part of the feminist art collection of the Brooklyn Museum (Elisabeth Sackler Feminist Art Base). She has also had exhibitions at the Museo del Arte de Puerto Rico (Santurce, San Juan) and the Luis Ángel Arango Library (Bogotá). Among the distinctions Friedemann-Sánchez's work has received are the Catherine Doctorow Prize on Painting and the Nebraska Artist Achievement Award. She has received Smithsonian Artist Fellowship, Puffin Foundation, Pollock Krasner and National Association of Latino Arts and Culture grants. She was nominated for the US Artist Fellowship and the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Rema Hort Mann and Anonymous was a Woman Foundation grants. She has been an artist in residence at Art OMI, Fountainhead, Tamarind Institute, Yaddo, Gasworks Tiangle Arts, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts and the Bronx Museum for the Arts.