Ana Tiscornia
Bio
Montevideo, 1951. She lives and works in New York since 1991. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally: Josée Bienvenu Gallery, NY 2020; IMO, Ghent, NY 2018; Nora Fisch Gallery, Buenos Aires 2017; Gurvich Museum, Montevideo, 2013; among other. And in collectives such as Secrit Gallery, Chicago 2020; Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston 2020; Bel Ami Gallery, LA 2019; Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco 2019; Museum of Contemporary Art, MACBA, Buenos Aires 2018; Figari Museum, Montevideo 2017;
She represented Uruguay at the II and IX Havana Biennials, Cuba, the III Lima Biennial, Peru, and participated in the End of the World Biennial in Mar del Plata, Argentina.
It is in collections such as the National Museum of Visual Arts of Montevideo, the San Juan Argentina Museum; Museum of North Dakota, USA; The Illinois Holocaust Museum, Chicago, USA; Salvador Allende Solidarity Museum, Santiago; Pérez Art Museum Miami, USA; Sayago & Pardon, LA, USA; o Benetton Collection, Italy.
Statement
Shet explores a paradoxical relationship between architecture -a construction language par excellence- and destruction or loss. We could say that it is, at the same time, both an act of desolation and of hope.
