Fanny Sanín Sader

Place: Bogotá

Born: 1938

Biography:

Fanny Sanín Sader is a Colombian artist born in Bogotá in 1938. She is best known for her paintings of abstract geometric forms and colors. Fanny Sanín Sader is considered to be part of the second generation of abstract artists from Colombia.

Early Life and Education

She graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Los Andes 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 and Style

has cited a number of specific influences, including Ellsworth Kelly, Wassily Kandinsky, and Henri Matisse. 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.

Exhibitions and Collections

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

• Abstract Expressionism influenced her style, with a focus on geometric forms and limited colors.
• Her work is characterized by its vibrant colors and intricate designs, often incorporating geometric shapes.
• Sanín's paintings are highly abstract, with a focus on color and structure.

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