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 II and IX Havana Biennials, Cuba, and at the III Lima Biennial, Peru. Selected museum and institutional exhibitions include Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (2024–2025); Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2022–2023); OMI Architecture, Ghent, NY (2018); Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires (MACBA), Argentina (2018); Museo Figari, Montevideo, Uruguay (2017); Museo de Historia del Arte (MUHAR), Montevideo, Uruguay (2017); Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay (2015); Museo Gurvich, Montevideo, Uruguay (2013); and Columbia University, New York, NY (2013).

 

Tiscornia's work is held in numerous public and private collections, including Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Seville, Spain; Artium Museoa, Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain; Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center, Skokie, IL; TEOR/éTica, San José, Costa Rica; North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND; 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; Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Miami, FL; and Benetton Collection, Italy. She has also 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; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Argentina; and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.

 

Between 1998 and 2015, Tiscornia curated several exhibitions, including La Guerra Que No Hemos Visto, a project by Colombian artist Juan Manuel Echavarría, exhibited at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, Colombia. She has received numerous honors, including the Premio Konex Mercosur (2022), the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (2004), the Asociación Argentina de Críticos de Arte Prize (2004), and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2000).