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Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez

Lincoln, Nebraska

Dream Map and Cornucopia with Flames depicts white and red vase with geometric shape, from which cocoa leaves extend vertically. Behind the vase are red flames and linear figures.

Dream Map and Cornucopia with Flames

2024

Dream Map and Cornucopia with Tulipiere depicts a tiered blue and white porcelain tulip vase with figures, from which extends symmetrical painted branches, leaves, and fruit against a dark background. Each tier of the vase depicts a scene including Spanish invaders against Aztecs, an “Indian” mixing chocolate with a wood mixer.

Dream Map and Cornucopia with Tulipiere

2024

Dream Map and Cornucopia with Green Eyes depicts a stylized vase with a face holding large, blooming pink flowers with green stems on a black background, surrounded by linear drawings and a small cat-like figure to the left of the vase. Text in an arc along the right side reads “A sudden give in our future”.

Dream Map and Cornucopia with Green Eyes

2023

Dream Map and Cornucopia with Poppies and Irises depicts a blue and white vase holding long green leaves and tall stems with blue and white flowers, set against a dark background with orange flowers and decorative patterns.

Dream Map and Cornucopia with Poppies and Irises

2023

Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.

About Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez smiles and glances to the size in a verdant field at dusk. She is a Colombo-American woman with light skin tone and shoulder length wavy grey hair.

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez is a Colombo-American artist with an interdisciplinary practice. She has exhibited at the Harvard Museum of Science and History, the Everson Museum, Instituto de Vision, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Halsey Institute for Contemporary Art, Nerman Museum of Art, Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, Blue Star Contemporary, Columbus Museum of Art, Harvard Museums of Science and Culture, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, La Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador, the Sheldon Museum of Art, the Joslyn Art Museum, Museo de Arte Moderno, the Portland Museum, El Museo del Barrio, Schneider Museum of Art, Frost Museum, Queens Museum of Art, and the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Friedemann-Sánchez was awarded a U.S. Latin X Fellowship, the Doctorow Prize in Painting, a Smithsonian Artist Fellowship, a Puffin grant, a Pollock-Krasner grant, and a NALAC grant. She has been a resident at Art OMI, Fountainhead, Tamarind Institute, Yaddo, Gasworks, and Bemis Center for Contemporary Art. Her work is collected by the Sheldon Museum, El Museo del Barrio, and the Cleveland Museum.

Program Participation

Joan Mitchell Fellowship, 2025

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“ I make art in two languages about the curious and intense experience of migration. My work is about the syncretism and hybridization of cultures and individuals influenced by dominant and subordinate cultural forms that have taken place since the conquest and colonization of the Americas—processes that get re-enacted in the migration experience.”