Frances Gallardo (San Juan, 1984) is a visual artist who lives in New York. She earned an MFA in Studio Art from Cornell University and a BFA in Drawing and Humanities from the University of Puerto Rico. Gallardo has completed numerous residencies including Caribbean Linked IV (Aruba), The Center for Book Arts (New York), Taller Vivo, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (San Juan) and La Práctica, Beta-Local (San Juan). Her exhibitions include the Getty Institute’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (forthcoming, Museum of Latin American Art, Los Angeles), Caribbean: Crossroads of the World (Perez Art Museum, Miami), Displaced Images/Images in Space: IV Poly/Graphic San Juan Triennial: Latin America and the Caribbean (Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan) and the XV Tallinn Print Triennial (KUMU Art Museum, Estonia). Solo exhibitions include Meteoro (Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan), Meteorology (Torpedo Factory, Alexandria) as well as Landings (lift off) and Conduit, both at Cornell University, where she was recipient of the Charles Baskerville Award for graduate studies in fine art. Gallardo has also received the Lexus Emerging Artist Grant (San Juan) and has been nominated for the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation Emerging Artist Grant Program (Miami). Her work has been featured in Small Axe, Art Nexus and Frescos: Puerto Rican Artists Under 35.

Education  2016 MFA ‘Studio Art,’ Cornell University, Ithaca, NY   2008  BA ‘Fine Arts and Humanities,’ University of Puerto Rico

Residencies  2016    Caribbean Linked IV, Ateliers '89, Aruba  2014    Taller Vivo, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, PR 2012    The Center for Book Arts of New York, NY  2011    La Práctica, Beta-Local, San Juan, PR 

Awards  2016 Charles Baskerville Award, Cornell University,Ithaca, NY and nominations 2016 Cisneros Fontanals Foundation: Nomination for Emerging Artist   Grant, Miami, FL  2013 AICA- Puerto Rico Chapter, Nomination for Best Curatorial Project, Elvis Fuentes, Meteoro, Frances Gallardo, ICP, San Juan, PR     2012 Emerging Artist Award, Lexus with the Arts, San Juan, PR                Solo Exhibitions  2016 Landings (lift off), MFA Thesis, Olive Tjaden Gallery, Cornell University, NY    2015 Conduit, Experimental Gallery, Department of Art, Cornell University, NY   2014  Meteorology, The Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA   2014  Taller Vivo: Unicornio en la isla: 100 años de Lorenzo Homar,    Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, San Juan, PR 2012 Meteoro, Arsenal de la Marina Española, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, PR 

Group Exhibitions 2017 Getty Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA exhibition, Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA (forthcoming) 2016 1st International Academic Printmaking Alliance Invitational Exhibition, Imperial Ancestral Temple Art Museum, Beijing, China  2015 Displaced Images / Images in Space: IV Poly/Graphic San Juan Triennial: Latin America and the Caribbean, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, PR  2014 Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL

2014 Interconexiones: lecturas curatoriales de la colección permanente (Interconnections: Curatorial Readings of the Permanent Collection), Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR  2013    The Supremacy of Chaos, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR  2012  The Beehive: III Poly/Graphic San Juan Triennial: Latin America and the Caribbean, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, PR (catalogue)  2012  Caribe Now: Contemporary Art from the Caribbean Diaspora (organized by El Museo del Barrio), Nathan Cummings Foundation, NY 2012  Two-Person Exhibition, Of Dreams and Hurricanes, Praxis  International Art, Chelsea, NY

Collections El Museo del Barrio, New York, USA Federal Reseve Bank of New York, USA The Center for Book Arts of New York, NY Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico Private Collections: Puerto Rico, BVI, USA

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