Ana Vizcarra Rankin makes drawings, paintings and sculptures about travel and cartography. Recently she has been studying star maps and images captured using powerful telescopes and other mediating technologies such as global positioning systems. These images are transmuted into art that explores the phenomenological sense of being in and of the universe.
Ana Vizcarra Rankin hace dibujos, pinturas y esculturas sobre los viajes y la cartografía. Recientemente ha estado estudiando mapas astronómicos y las imágenes capturadas utilizando gran telescopios y otras tecnologías de mediación gráfica, como los sistemas de posicionamiento global. Estas imágenes se transmutan en arte que explora el sentido fenomenológico de ser parte del universo.
An Uruguayan American artist based in Philadelphia, Vizcarra Rankin has exhibited extensively and received various awards. Vizcarra Rankin holds an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and a BA in art history from Temple University. Her work resides in international, public, corporate and private collections.
Una artista uruguaya/estadounidense con sede en Filadelfia, Ana Vizcarra Rankin ha realizado numerosas exposiciones y recibido varios premios. Vizcarra Rankin se graduó con un Master en las artes plasticas de la Academia de Bellas Artes de Pensilvania y una licenciatura de historia del arte en la Universidad de Temple. Su trabajo reside en colecciones internacionales, públicas, corporativas y privadas.
Born: Maldonado Uruguay
Works: Philadelphia PA USA
Selected Exhibitions
Solo
2020
Pennsylvania College of Art and Design Butterfly Effect Reading PA
2019
Kitchen Table Gallery Everything Counts Philadelphia PA
Satellite Art Show SXSW Micro/Macro Sky Austin TX
2018
Factory Works FleshPlanetarium Williamsport, PA
Philiput Experimental Ana Vizcarra Rankin Philadelphia PA
2017
Brandywine River Museum of Art Time/Scale Chadds Ford, PA
James Oliver Gallery Sky/Skin Philadelphia PA
Liliput Experimental Coruscando Puebla, Mexico
Warren County Community College Infinite/Infinitesimal Washington NJ
2015
Salón de Bellas Artes, Embassy of Uruguay Sky/Ground Washington DC
Instituto Cervantes Chicago Sky/Ground Chicago IL
2014
Cohen Gallery Goggleworks. The Void That Binds Reading PA
2013
Crane Arts Project Space Voids that Bind Philadelphia PA
2012
Annenberg Gallery, PAFA MFA Thesis Exhibition Philadelphia PA
2011
Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens Skull Currency Philadelphia PA
2005
Bickett Gallery New Drawings and Paintings Raleigh NC
Gallery A Archetypal Variations Raleigh NC
2004
Bickett Gallery Inspiring the Muses Raleigh NC
Gallery A Abstract Raleigh NC
2003
April & George Gallery Rebirth Archetypes Raleigh NC
Group
2018
Temple Judea Museum Making Israel Real Elkins Park PA
Azavea Transformation as Perception Philadelphia PA
James Oliver Gallery International Variety Philadelphia PA
Da Vinci Art Alliance International Constructivism (2 person) Philadelphia PA
2017
Woodmere Art Museum The Woodmere Annual 76th Juried Exhibition Philadelphia PA
The Painting Center Fight or Flight New York, NY
Main Line Art Center Teaching Artists Exhibition Haversford, PA
Philadelphia City Hall A Message to Our Daughters Philadelphia PA
2016
Carver Insitute for Arts and Technology Inside/Out Towson MD
Ellipsis Art Gallery Flesh… Philadelphia PA
2015
Alianza Latina Visions Shaping Latin American Art Arlington VA
PhilaMOCA Ad Noctum (2 person) Philadelphia PA
Plastic Club Small Worlds Philadelphia PA
Paradigm Gallery Community Arts Project Philadelphia PA
Projects Gallery Square Foot Redux Miami, FL
HeavyBubble HQ Snowflake Salon Philadelphia PA
2014
Arlington Arts Center Dia de los Muertos Arlington VA
Fisher Brooks Gallery, PAFA, Summer Shuffle Philadelphia PA
Heavy Bubble Headquarters, Snowflake Salon Philadelphia PA
Projects Gallery, Square Foot Art Basel Redux Miami FL
Pterodactyl, Escape the Night Philadelphia PA
7Dunham, Print Exchange Exhibition Brooklyn, NY
Salon 1522, Night Walk With Me, Philadelphia PA
Bebe Benoliel Gallery, CFEVA, Open Channels Philadelphia PA
Wilmington Project Space, Luscious Landscapes, Wilmington, DE
Gallery 110 Church. Ritual:Reading Room Philadelphia PA
2013
Ann Street Gallery. The Sublime Revisited Newburgh NY
Pterodactyl, All Along the Watchtower, Philadelphia PA
Rowan University Art Gallery. Cosmobilities Glassboro NJ
2012
Philadelphia City Hall Dialogo 365, Philadelphia PA
Sandy Springs Museum Re-Using Our Re-Sources Sandy Springs VA
Latin American Gallery, International House Philadelphia Gender Games Philadelphia PA
PAFA Gallery 128 Inspired by Tanner Philadelphia PA
Philadelphia Magic Gardens Art Gage Philadelphia PA
2011
Gallery 110 Church. Stimulus/Stimuli Philadelphia PA
MBN Studios Out In Out Philadelphia PA
Chestnut Hill Academy. Drawn from PAFA Chestnut Hill PA
2007
Pageant Soloviev Definitely Philadelphia PA
2003
Exploris Museum Day of the Dead Exhibition Raleigh NC
Designbox Keep a Breast Raleigh NC
Permanent Grin Gallery Sketchbook Show Raleigh NC
Education
2012 MFA Studio Art - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
2010 BA Art History - Temple University summa cum laude
2005 Drawing Marathon - New York Studio School
1995-1999 Architecture Design - Oklahoma State University
Awards
Awards and Residencies
2016
Resident Artist TrueQué Artist Residency in Ayampe, Ecuador
(nominee) The FID Drawing Prize
2015
Resident Artist Barnes Artist Residency in Umbria, Italy
2012
Judy McGregor Caldwell Purchase Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
2010
Essie Baron Memorial Award, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Billikopf Award, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
2009
Gundesheimer Merit Award, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Curatorial
2020
Muestra Dislocada/Dislocated Show, Fringe Arts Philadelphia PA,
2019
Muestra Dislocada/Dislocated Show, Paintedfoot Studio Philadelphia PA, K-Zona Bogota Colombia, Laboratorio Tangencial de Arte Posnación, Chicago IL
Shacti/Eschatology PaintedFoot Studio Phiadelphia Pa
2017
Strong, Tender & True, Love Barn, Phoenixville PA
2016
Falolo Forever, Little Berlin, Philadelphia PA
2013
Feast Portfolio, PAFA Alumni Art Gallery, Philadelphia PA
Collections
Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts Museum Permanent Collection
Brandywine River Museum of Art
Peoria Riverfront Museum
Uruguay Cultural Foundation of the Arts
Franklin Furnace Collection, MOMA New York
Red Hat
Print Council of Australia
Brooklyn Art Library
Experience
2016-2017
Guest Critic, Carver Institute of Arts and Technology
2016
Adjunct Instructor Color Theory Warren County Community College, Washington NJ
2012 – 2015
Lectures and Talks
2017
“Artist in Conversation” with Patricia Guardiola, Assistant Head of UPENN Fisher Fine Arts Library
“Reference, Observation and Mediation” James Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia PA
2015
“Neo-Nomad Maps” Uruguay Cultural Foundation of the Arts, Washington DC
2013
“Head in the Sky, Feet on the Ground” Art at Lunch, PAFA Philadelphia PA
Bibliography and Press
Public Collections
Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts
Brooklyn Art Library
Print Council of Australia
Publications
2013 Cosmobilities Invitational Exhibition Catalog "Late Feast in June"
2013 Art Takes Miami SCOPE Miami Juried Catalog "Eagle Nebula"
2013 Bound “Pinball” Juried Exhibition Catalog
2012 Dialogo 365 Exhibition Catalog "Benefit Dinner Plates"
2011 Certain Circles Vol 1. Philadelphia PA "Disseminate"
2010 Philadelphia City Paper "Triangle Park is in Bloom" photo credit
2007 World’s Greatest Erotic Art of Today Vol 1 E.S. Miami FL 4 images in “Fine Art”
2000 Urban Tulsa Weekly Frontispiece, Earth Day Issue
Press
2014 The Reading Eagle Ron Schira "Ana Vizcarra Rankin finds art in the skies" (review)
2013 Tyler Blog Kayla Cropper “Ana Vizcarra Rankin (BA, Art History '10) begins portfolio project, Feast
(interview)
The Art Blog Chip Scwartz "All Things Evil at Pterodactyl " (review)
Flying Kite Media Michelle Freeman“Stargazing with Ana Vizcarra Rankin” (interview)
Manufactured Dissent Ruth Schanbacher “Ana Vizcarra Rankin” (interview)
Eurocircle Sherry Kumar “Philadelphia Member of the Month- Ana Vizcarra Rankin” (interview)
2012 El Espectador Charles Loewenstein “Artista Plástica Uruguaya fue distinguida en los Estados Unidos.”
2005 Independent Weekly Bronwyn Merritt “A Riot of Color” (review)
2004 Independent Weekly, Fiona Morgan “Art or Censorship?”
News and Observer, Hunter Spanks “Art Critics In Blue”
2003 Lather Magazine, Mark Hornburg “Ana Vizcarra - Self Interview”
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