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BIO<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Garc\u00eda-Franco is a visual artist. She was born in La Almunia de Do\u00f1a Godina (Zaragoza) in 1962 and has lived in Madrid since 1983.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her relationship with painting began in childhood. Throughout the different stages of her life, painting has remained a constant. She understands being an artist as a way of being in the world, and painting as the language through which she observes, questions and transforms reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After an initial period of her life away from formal artistic training, she returned decisively to painting and graduated in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid in 2000. She began exhibiting in 1997 and, from 2006 onwards, developed a more sustained exhibition practice, with solo and group exhibitions and participation in contemporary art fairs in Spain and other countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her career has developed between Madrid and Mexico, where she maintained a studio for a period of her life and established links with galleries in Mexico City, including Galer\u00eda Oscar Rom\u00e1n and Galer\u00eda Arte XXI. From Mexico, she travelled frequently to different countries in Ibero-America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her work has been presented in Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Marbella, Vitoria, Bolzano, Beijing and Mexico City, among other places, and is held in private collections in Spain, the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, Germany, the United Kingdom and South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2023, she has entered a new phase of reassessment and expansion in her practice. Painting remains at the core of her work, but it is also the starting point for processes that explore its relationship with space, the digital image, movement, video and generative processes. This research has given rise to strands such as Living Work and Expanded Art, which explore different possibilities for extending painting beyond its physical boundaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SELECTED CAREER HIGHLIGHTS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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2026<\/strong>
MarbellaArt. Presentation of Bruma de contrabando (Contraband Mist) and Rojo, pero con modales (Red, but Well-Mannered).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Development of Living Work and new strands expanding painting practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025<\/strong>
Participation in MIIAD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023\u2013present
A new phase of research, reassessment and expansion of her artistic practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016<\/strong>
Galer\u00eda Arte XXI, Mexico City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2015<\/strong>
Galer\u00eda Oscar Rom\u00e1n, Mexico City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014<\/strong>
Artbeijing, Beijing Contemporary Art Fair.
Galer\u00eda Nou Millenni, Barcelona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2013<\/strong>
Artbeijing, Beijing Contemporary Art Fair.
Galer\u00eda Nou Millenni, Barcelona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2012<\/strong>
Kun Start, Bolzano Contemporary Art Fair, Italy.
Galer\u00eda Nou Millenni, Barcelona.
Galer\u00eda Saoba, A12 group exhibition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2011<\/strong>
MabArt, 7th Marbella International Contemporary Art Fair, with Galer\u00eda GlamArt-DKS.
arteBilbao, 2nd Art and Antiques Fair, Alh\u00f3ndiga Bilbao, with Galer\u00eda GlamArt-DKS.
FAIM, Madrid Independent Art Fair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2010<\/strong>
DEARTE Fair, Madrid. Guest artist at the Fundaci\u00f3n DEARTE stand.
La Ciudad So\u00f1ada (The Dreamed City), group exhibition, Fundaci\u00f3n Alianza Hisp\u00e1nica, Madrid.
Solo exhibition, Sala GlamArt-DKS, Vitoria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SELECTED EARLIER EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Solo exhibitions Elementos I (Elements I), Elementos II (Elements II), Vac\u00edo I (Void I), Vac\u00edo II (Void II) and Vac\u00edo III (Void III), alongside various group exhibitions in Madrid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Set design for the opera Orfeo (Orpheus) for Camerata L\u00edrica de Espa\u00f1a, and participation in its visual communication project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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EDUCATION<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Degree in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid, 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PRIVATE COLLECTIONS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Spain \u00b7 United States \u00b7 Mexico \u00b7 Colombia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guatemala \u00b7 Germany \u00b7 United Kingdom \u00b7 South Africa<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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