Frances Gallardo
San Juan, PR, 1984
Biography Details
Draftswoman and creator of installations. Obtained a master's degree in Interdisciplinary Art from Cornell University (2016) and a bachelor's degree in Drawing and Humanities from the University of Puerto Rico (2008). Gallardo's work has been widely exhibited in the United States and internationally in venues such as the Museum of Latin American Art (Los Angeles), the Pérez Art Museum (Miami), the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture (San Juan), and the Kumu Art Museum (Tallinn). Participation in artist residencies include Latin American Roaming Art (Panama City), Caribbean Linked (Oranjestad), The Center for Book Arts (New York) and La Practica, Beta-Local (San Juan). Gallardo has received several awards, including the Lexus Emerging Artists Scholarship and the NYSCA Community Artists Scholarship. Her work is part of the permanent collections of the Puerto Rico Museum of Art and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She has experimented with numerous materials, especially paper, with pastel, cutwork, and collage techniques.
Artist Statement
"For me, sometimes, is literally like a cross because I carry it with me where ever I go and weighs as much as a trunk but is an amazing material (paper), there is so much variety, you can cut it, manipulate it, take it to the three-dimensional." It is a very plastic, recyclable material, its malleability, its plasticity; it is something that strikes me very much. Reacts quickly to what you do. My work in, some ways, is always about lots of effort, patience".
Source: Toro, Ana Teresa. La muchacha de los huracanes, El Nuevo Día, Cultura, 27 de agosto de 2013
Formation
Education
2016
- Master in Fine Arts, Major in Studio Art. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States
2009-2010
- Studies in Drawing and Painting. Art Students League of New York, New York, United States
2008
- Bachelor’s Degree of Fine Arts and Humanities. Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2005
- Student Exchange. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Professional Experience
2017
- Artist Residency. Latin American Roaming Art (LARA), Panama City, Panama
2016
- Artist Residency. Caribbeann Linked IV – Ateliers ’89, Oranjestad, Aruba
2014
- Artist Residency. Taller Vivo, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2012
- Artist Residency. Workspace AIR, The Center for Books, New York, United States
2011
- Artist Residency. La práctica, Beta-Local, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2010-2011, 2008
- Administrator. Museo La Casa del Libro, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2009
- Artist Residency. Papelón, Paper Mill, San Juancito, Honduras
Exhibitions
Solo Shows
2014
- Meteorology, The Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, Virginia, United States
2012
- Meteoro, Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Public Art
2019
- Line to line, MTA Arts & Design “Percent for Art”, Mount Vernon, New York, United States
Goup Shows
2019- present
- Puerto Rico Plural, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2020
- Rising Water, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, Florida, United States
- Anarquía y dialéctica en el deseo: Mujeres artistas de Puerto Rico, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2019
- Return to Entry: Interpreting Purdue’s Space Exploration Archives, Robert L. Ringel Gallery, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
- Whose Vestiges Subsist, LES Gallery, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York, United States
- Puerto Rico In/Ex, Art Gallery @ GCC, Glendale Community College, Glendale, California, United States
2018
- Weather, Lines, Video and Tape, Lucy García Arte Contemporáneo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
- Puerto Rico: Defying Darkness, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
- PM, Embajada, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Correspondencia/Correspondence: exposición de arte correo, El Lobi, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2017
- Getty Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA; Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, California; Wallach Art Gallery; Delaware Art Museum; Portland Museum of Art; Frost Art Museum, United States
- En 63M2, Lucy García Arte Contemporáneo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
- GALLERY Chicago, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, Illinois, United States
- LARA Residency Exhibition, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Panama City, Panama
- Landscape / Horizonte, Fresh Window Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, United States
2016
- 1st International Academic Printmaking Alliance Invitational Exhibition, Imperial Ancestral Temple Art Museum, Beijing, China
- In situ: perspectivas del paisaje en las Grandes Antillas, Museo de Arte Dr. Pío López Martínez, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Cayey, Puerto Rico
- The Winds Never Stop: Caribbean Linked IV Artist-in-Residence Exhibition – Ateliers ’89, Oranjestad, Aruba
- Caribes: una nueva mirada hacia nuestro Caribe, Museo de Arte, Caribbean University, Bayamón, Puerto Rico
2015
- Displaced Images / Images in Space: IV Poly/Graphic San Juan Triennial: Latin America and the Caribbean, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Then and now: Ten Years of Residencies at The Center for Book Arts of New York, The Center for Book Arts, New York, United States
2014
- Caribbean: Crossroads of the world, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, Florida, United States
- Taller Vivo: El unicornio en la isla: 100 años de Lorenzo Homar, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Interconexiones: Lecturas Curatoriales de la Colección del MAPR, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- CCC: Caribes, Casa Cortés, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2013
- Puerto Rico: puerta al paisaje, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Resident Artists 2012, The Center for Book Arts of New York, New York, United States
- Muestra Nacional de Arte, Antiguo Arsenal de la Marina Española, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Beca Lexus 2012, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Impresiones, relieves y resonancias, Museo de Arte Dr. Pío López Martínez, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Cayey Campus, Cayey, Puerto Rico
2012
- Of Dreams and Hurricanes, Praxis International Art Chelsea, New York, United States
- III Trienal Poligráfica de San Juan, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, El Panal, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Caribe Now, Contemporary Art from the Caribbean Diaspora, Nathan Cummings Foundation, El Museo del Barrio, New York, United States
- Esfoto 12, La Casa Tomada, San Salvador, El Salvador
2011
- For Love, Not Money, XVth Tallinn Print Triennial, Tallinn, Estonia
- Pocket, Cart Watch, Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- XNOX Art Auction, Guatemala City, Guatemala
2010
- Valoarte, Centro Nacional de Arte, San José, Costa Rica
- Muestra Nacional de Arte, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2009
- II Trienal Poligráfica de San Juan, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Lip/stick, Praxis International Art, New York, United States
2008
- Giving, an art action, El Museo del Barrio at PINTA, LatinAmerican Contemporary Art Fair, New York, United States
- En sus marcas: pintura de los 90’ y 00’ en Puerto Rico, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Valoarte, Centro Nacional de Cultura, San José, Costa Rica
- Cataño D.C, Cataño, Puerto Rico
- Angora 2.08, Caguas, Puerto Rico
- Acciones y música experimental, Galería 356, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Awards, Distinctions and Achievements
2018
- Grant. New York State Council for the Arts (NYSCA) Artist in Community Grant, Tompkins County Public Library, Ithaca, New York, United States
- Nomination. Cisneros Fontanals Foundation for Emerging Artist Grant, Miami, Florida, United States
2017
- Nomination. Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, New York, United States
2016
- Award. Charles Baskerville Award for Graduate Studies in Fine Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, Nuew York, United States
- Nomination. Cisneros Fontanals Foundation for Emerging Artist Grant, Miami, Forida, United States
2013
- Nomination. AICA- Puerto Rico Chapter: Best Curatorial Project, Elvis Fuentes, Meteoro, Frances Gallardo, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2012
- Grant. Beca Lexus para Artistas, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2010
- Grant by Nomination. Emerging artist grant 2010, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, Florida, United States
2008
- Medal of Excelence in Drawing. Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Collections
- Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- El Museo del Barrio, New York, United States
- Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, United States
- Colección Cortés, San Juan, Puerto Rico
- MTA Arts & Design, New York, United States
- The Center for Book Arts, New York, United States
- Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
- Asiaciti Trust, Australia
Bibliography
Books
Nogueras, Celina. Frescos: 50 artistas puertorriqueños menores de 35, San Juan, PR: Muuaaa, 2010.
Catalogues
Noriega, Rebeca; Cullen Deborah. El Panal / The Hive, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2012.
Noriega, Rebeca. En sus marcas. Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2008.
Newspapers
Barnett Sánchez, Sylvia. “La seducción en el arte”. Diario la Prensa (Nueva York, EEUU), 21 de junio de 2009, p.23.
Delgado, José, “Meteorología puertorriqueña en la zona de Washington”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), Febrero 2014.
Irizarry, Yoryie. “De sueños y huracanes”. En rojo, Claridad ( San Juan , PR), 2012.
Rodríguez, Jorge. “Se enciende el panal en la Trienal Poli/Grafica de San Juan”. Escenario Weekend, El Vocero (San Juan, PR), 22 de abril de 2012.
Toro, Ana Teresa. “La muchacha de los huracanes”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 25 de agosto de 2013.
Toro, Ana Teresa. “Promesas de papel, fotos y sonido”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 20 de septiembre de 2012.
Toro, Ana Teresa. “Trío de artistas jóvenes obtiene la Beca Lexus”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 19 de septiembre de 2012.
Toro Ana Teresa. “Literalmente, el arte de dar”. El Nuevo Día (San Juan, PR), 7 de enero de 2011.
Magazines
Hartup, Cheryl. “Meteoro”, ArtNexus, No. 88, March 2013.
Muñoz, Julieta. “...de la Trienal Poli/Grafica: El Panal/The Hive y un contrapunto”, Revista Cruce, Abril 2012.
Ingrid M. Jiménez, PhD. “Transformación a través del papel”, Diálogo, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Noviembre-Diciembre, 2009, pp. 18.
Web
Dávila Villa, Úrsula. “Artist's Space: Puerto Rico’s Art Scene: Not Only Reggaeton Gets Your Heartbeat.
Racing!”, ...might be good, Ejournal, Marzo 2011.
Otero, Carlos Antonio. “Frances Gallardo: Tejedora de huracanes”, El naufragio de las palabras, Junio 2011.
Ramos Gutiérrez, Diana. “La estética de la nostalgia”, Periódico Conboca. Junio 2012.
Ramos, Sabrina. “Supremacía del caos”, Visión Doble, Noviembre 2013.