Zilia Sánchez 1926-2024

Sánchez's work had rarely been seen outside of Puerto Rico before her 2013 survey at Artists Space, New York, and 2014 solo exhibition at Galerie Lelong & Co., New York. In 2017, her work was included in the 57th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, VIVA ARTE VIVA, curated by Christine Macel, and in 2024 was included in the 60th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa. In 2019, Soy Isla, a major solo exhibition of Sánchez's work, was presented at the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. and toured to Museo de Arte Ponce, San Juan, Puerto Rico and El Museo del Barrio, New York. In 2024, Sánchez was the subject of the solo exhibition Topologías / Topologies at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Sánchez's work is featured in public collections including the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentina; Pérez Art Muesum, Miami; Colby College Museum of Art, Maine; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico; Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico; Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey; Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; and Walker Art Center, Minnesota.

Sánchez was born in 1926 in Havana, Cuba and permanently settled in San Juan, Puerto Rico in the early 1970s, where she in died in 2024.

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