Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez (b. 1961, Bogotá, Colombia) lives and works in Lincoln, Nebraska. Friedemann-Sánchez's interdisciplenary practice investigates the complex intersections of migration, identity, gender, cultural memory, and the effects of colonization.
Friedemann-Sánchez studied at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia and earned a B.F.A. from Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles in 1994 and an M.F.A. from New York University in 1997.
Exhibiting consistently since 1989, recent exhibitions include 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 is a 2025 Joan Mitchell Fellow. She 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 in the collections of the Everson Museum, El Museo del Barrio, The Cleveland Museum, The Museum University of New Mexico, El Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá, the Sheldon Museum, El Museo de Arte Moderno, Cali, Colombia, and El Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Bogotá, Colombia.
