Ana M. Franco is an associate professor in the Department of Art History at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia and will be moving to Rice University in the Summer of 2025, where she will take a position as Associate Professor in Art History. She is currently President of the Association for Latin American Art (ALAA), was the 2020 Latin American Collection Fellow of the Cisneros Institute of the Museum of Modern Art New York, and has been a Fulbright Scholar. Ana has a wide variety of scholarly publications on abstract art from Colombia and Latin America, as well as exhibition catalogues. Her co-edited book New Geographies of Abstract Art in Postwar Latin America appeared on Routledge in 2019 and her book on geometric abstraction in Colombia entitled Neo-clásicos: Edgar Negret y Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar entre Paris, New York y Bogotá, 1944-1964 was published by Ediciones Uniandes in 2019. More recently, Ana curated the show Eduardo Rampirez Villamizar: la vida entre cajas y papeles and co-curated Marta Traba Cuatro Veces at the exhibition hall of Universidad de los Andes. Her current book project includes a study of the history of abstract art in Colombia during the second half of the twentieth century from the perspective of women artists, with a special focus on the relationship between abstract art, craft and decoration. Ana received her PhD in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University (NYU). She holds a MLitt in Art History from the University of St. Andrews (Scotland) and an MA in Philosophy from the National University of Colombia.

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