BIOGRAPHY

Ana Nance

Ana Nance is a North American-Spanish artist and renowned photographer with over 35 years of experience in diverse creative fields. After nearly two years as an artist-in-residence at Nave Oporto, she now runs her own studio, “La___Tercera Nave,” in Carabanchel, Madrid, as well as studios in her country home in the Sierra del Segura. Her extensive career spans awards, exhibitions, grants, publications, campaigns, public speaking, directing, consulting, and now, teaching, further enriching her impressive biography. Her work has recently entered into various important collections such as Rucandio in Spain. She is a Leica Ambassador for the SL3 camera system and just finished a solo exhibition at Leica Gallery in Madrid. Residencies also include Farm Studio in India, and now LaCoste in France. The most recent grant includes La Comunidad de Madrid.

Ana holds a B.F.A. in Fine Arts and Art History from the Savannah College of Art and Design, and what she calls her “Master’s Degree” from over 12 years of living and working in New York City. Now based in Madrid, she has collaborated with major publications like The New York Times and El Pais Semanal, and created visuals for advertising campaigns like Mercedes and Telefonica to name a few. Although her career is now solely focused on her own conceptual work and no longer works commercially, except in collaboration as an artist or in patrocinio.

Ana’s personal projects have been showcased in prestigious galleries and festivals such as PhotoEspaña, ICP, Art Basel Miami, Paris Photo, JustMad, and Cerartmic. In Museums such as Casa Arabe, Daniel Zuleaga Segovia, Casa Gaudi Barcelona, Centro de Arte Alcobendas, Jardin Botanico Madrid, and Musée National De L´Histoire de Límmigration in Paris. Galleries include Arias Rego Contemporary, Fernando Pradilla, Pepe Pisa, Mad is Mad, CBGB´s, John McEnroe, Earl McGrath in New York. She has received notable awards, including Talavera Ceramics, Female in Focus from, the British Journal of Photography, Tokyo Photo, Lens Culture, and American Photography. In addition to her work as an artist, Ana has taught workshops at institutions like Leica Worldwide, PHE Madrid, SCAD, UNWTO in China, and as a guest speaker in India and Mexico. She has also served as the Director of the Master’s in Photography Program at IED Madrid.

Known for her artistic documentary style with a humanitarian focus and ecological and femenine style in ceramics, Ana’s work merges a deep understanding of fine arts and the history of photography, viewed through a contemporary lens.

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