Displacement, memory, uncertainty, and repetition are constants in Ana Tiscornia's artistic practice. The use of architectural tools addresses the devastated space with the semantics of its own construction, mapping a sort of cartography of desolation and oblivion. Her works draw upon a paradoxical bond between architecture – language of construction par excellence – and the language of destruction and dislocation.

Born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1951, Ana Tiscornia lives and works in New York. She represented Uruguay at the second and Ninth Biennial of Havana, Cuba, and at the III Biennial of Lima, Peru. Select exhibitions include: Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2022-23); Espacio Minimo, Madrid, Spain (2021); OMI Architecture, Ghent, NY (2018); Contemporary Art Museum of Buenos Aires (MACBA), Argentina (2018); Figari Museum, Montevideo, Uruguay (2017) MUHAR Museum of Art History, Montevideo, Uruguay (2017); National Museum of Visual Arts, Montevideo, Uruguay (2015); Gurvich Museum, Montevideo, Uruguay (2017); Columbia University, New York, NY (2013).

Tiscornia’s work resides in many private and public collections including: CAAC Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla, Spain; Artium Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Vitoria, Spain; The Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center,  Chicago, USA; Teor/etica, San Jose, Costa Rica; Museum of North Dakota, USA; Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay; Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes, Juan Manuel Blanes Montevideo, Uruguay; Museo de San Juan, Argentina; Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile; Coleccion Jorge Perez, Miami. She also has been the longtime partner and collaborator of Liliana Porter, co-directing a number of videos included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Hirshorn Museum, Washington, DC; MALBA, Buenos Aires; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Between 1998 and 2015 Tiscornia curated several exhibitions. Among them is La Guerra Que No Hemos Visto, a project of the Colombian artist Juan Manuel Echavarria, exhibited at Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota, Colombia. She has received such honors as the Prize Asociación Argentina de Críticos de Arte, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2004) and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2000).