In the Studio: Nicole Franchy

Nicole Franchy in conversation with Aimé Iglesias Lukin, director and chief curator of Visual Arts.

Join us live on Instagram from your cell phone, or watch on YouTube after, for a series of remote visits to artists' studios to bring Americas Society's Visual Arts public programs to your home. Every other Wednesday, contemporary artists will dialogue with our Visual Arts department about their work and practice. Check out the series playlist.

About the artist: 

Nicole Franchy (Lima, 1977) studies at the School of Visual Arts Corriente Alterna. She moved to Belgium in 2010 where she graduated from The HISK Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Belgium. From 2015 till 2017 she was a resident at the ISCP International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York and in 2018 she did Art Omi, Upstate NY.

Her solo exhibitions include: Shifting Perspectives, New Viewings, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlín (2020); Vacío Tropical, Museo de Artes Gráficas de Saltillo, México (2019); Black Wasser, IK projects, Lima (2019);  Vacío Tropical, IK Projects, Lima (2018);Ocaso / Sunset, Sala Luis Miro-Quesada Garland, Lima (2017); Vertical Horizons, The Chimney, New York (2016); Boundary / Lugar Desconocido, Galería El Ojo Ajeno, Lima (2013); The Visitor, HISK, Ghent (2011); Satellite Cities, Galería Vertice, Lima (2008); Urbania, Galería 5006, Buenos Aires (2007). Selected group shows include: Ciudad Tomada, Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canarias (2021); Carpa Interdimensional, El Garajr (2020); Girando Sobre lo que se Encuentra Entre Nosotros, Museo de Bellas Artes de Guayaquil, Guayaquil (2019); Estratos de Un Paisaje, Colección Jean Mulder, Casa de América, Madrid, (2019); Hybrid Topographies, Deutsche Bank, Nueva York (2018); Delirios y o Ilusiones, Centro Cultural Casa Bolivar, Bogotá (2018);Hybrid Topographies, Deutsche Bank, New York (2018); ICPNA First National Prize, Icpna, Lima (2018); Criminalidad y Criminalización, University of Lima´s Cultural Center, Lima (2018); America, Ludlow 67, New York (2016); Dreamers and Realists, Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio (2016); Ashes, Nova Invaliden Galerie, Berlin (2016); Theorem, Mana Contemporary, New Jersey (2015); Nothing to Hide, Kinz + Tillou Fine Art, New York; Where do We Migrate To? Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN (2016); Europa, ArteBA, Buenos Aires (2015); La Encomienda: New Peruvian Photography, Galería Marta Traba, São Paulo (2014); Tierra de Nadie, Galería Gonzalez y Gonzalez, Lima (2014); Suspension, Artistdock, Berlin (2013). Traveling exhibition: Where Do We Migrate To? Värmland’s Museum, Karlstad, Sweden (2015-2016), The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, New York (2012), and Center for Art Design and Visual Culture, Baltimore (2011); Itinerary group show Contrainte Restraint, Sesc Pinheiros, Sao Paulo (2010), Maison de la Culture Marie – Uguay, Montreal (2009), Centro Cultural Español, Lima (2010), Espacio OTR, Madrid (2009).

Selected fairs and biennials include: Solo Show SP – Arte, Sao Paulo (2019); Swab International Art Fair, Barcelona (2017); Art Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto (2015); ArteBA Art Fair, Buenos Aires (2015); Untitled International Art Fair, Miami (2014); Scope International Art Fair, Basilea (2014); "Reconstrucciones" Project Rooms ArtLima, Lima (2014); ArtLima, Lima (2013); PARC, Lima (2013, 2014); Scope, Miami (2012); ArtBo, Bogotá (2012); You and Eye, Eleventh Havana Biennial (2012); Terrible Beauty: Art, Crisis, Change & the Office of Non-Compliance, Dublin Contemporary, Dublin (2011).

She was selected in 2014 for the EFG-Art Nexus International Art Prize by UBS MAP Guggenheim Curator for Latin America Pablo León De La Barra, and Celia Birbragher, Founder of Art Nexus; Duvel Prize: First prize, ArtBrussels, Brussels (2010).

Visit the Americas Society Visual Arts YouTube Channel for recordings of In the Studio Series and other previous events.

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More digital content from Visual Arts at Americas Society:

• Read the exhibition catalogue for Joaquín Orellana: The Spine of Music.
• Read the exhibition catalogue for Feliciano Centurión: Abrigo.
• Watch the documentary Feliciano Centurión: Abrazo Íntimo al Natural, directed by Mon Ross (2016).
• Watch videos of recent events:
  • Art at a Distance: Promoting Visual Arts during the Health Crisis
  • Curator's Perspective – Jacopo Crivelli Visconti
  • "I Am Reborn at Every Moment" – Contemporary Reflections on Feliciano Centurión and AIDS
  • Ulises Carrión – Art, Mail, Books, and So…
  • Book Launch: Alejandra Seeber – Picture This Featuring the Artist in Conversation with Guillermo Kuitca