Tania Franco Klein (b. Nov 18, 1990) Mexican multidisciplinary artist currently working with photography, GIF, video and installation. She started her praxis while gaining her BA Architecture in Mexico Citxy, which took her to pursue her MA at the University of the Arts London. Through the use of large-scale cinematic and vivid photographs, which exist in multilayered fragmented installations -- composed of murals, videos, and framed photographs, her practice mainly centers around the examination of modern anxieties and the performative stresses that come from living life online with a constant fixation on self-improvement, productivity, the effects of media overstimulation, and the way we profile ourselves and others into fitting our understanding of today's eclectic and fragmented realities. Franco Klein's work has been reviewed by international critique including ARTFORUM, CNN, Los Angeles Times, I-D Magazine, The Guardian, The Paris Review, JUXTAPOZ, Aperture Foundation, The Washington Post, Financial Times, The British Journal of Photography, and Vogue. She is a contributor to The New York Times, TIME, The New Yorker, FT weekend, New York Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Vogue and Dior. Positive Disintegration (2019) was nominated for the Paris Photo Aperture Foundation First Book Award.Her work is held in the permanent collections of The MoMA in New York and The Getty Center in Los Angeles
Solo Shows: 2025 | RAGE ™ , Angstroms, Mexico City 2024 | Long Story Short, Yancey Richardson, NYC 2024 | Break in Case of Emergency, Les Filles du calvaire, Paris 2024 | Tania Franco Klein, Roof-A, Rotterdam 2023 | Break In Case Of Emergency (Flies, Forks and Fires) ROSEGALLERY 2023 | Something about Something, LATERAL, Mexico City 2022 | Long Story Short, Pier24 San Francisco 2021 | Proceed To The Route, Roof-A, Rotterdam 2019 | Sex Robots , Riaperture festival, Italy 2019 | Proceed To The Route , Almanaque Gallery, Mexico City 2018 | Our Life In The Shadows , Thessaloniki Photobiennale, Museum of Photography, Grece 2018 | Our Life In The Shadows, Photometría Festival, Grece 2017 | Positive Disintegration , Zona Maco foto Art Fair, Almanaque Galería, MX 2017 | Vanitas Spectacle, Almanaque Fotográfica gallery, Mexico Group Exhibitions, Art Fairs and Festivals : 2024 | 60 AÑOS Museo Nacional de Antropología México 2024 | Arte vivo, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City 2024 | This is Us, Centro Mexico City 2022 | Unseen, Roof-A 2022 | Art Rotterdam, Roof-A 2020 | Crushed Bone / Wet Rock, COMA Gallery, Australia 2020 | LA gallery, featuring works by Manfred Muller and Tania Franco Klein, ROSEGALLERY 2019 | GOA Photo festival, Our Life in the shadows, India 2019 | Artificial Realms, FotoMexico festival Centro Nacional de Las Artes, Mexico City 2019 | These Fragments I have Shored against my ruins. Curation Aaron Stern, Photo St. Germain, FR 2019 | Glass, Latin-American contemporary photography at L`Espace Lhomond, Paris 2019 | Photo London, curation of Proceed To The Route, UK 2019 | LensCulture Exhibition, Aperture Foundation Gallery 2019 | Material Art Fair, Almanaque Gallery Mexico City 2018 | 30 Under 30 Women Photographers, Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris 2018 | Zona Maco foto Art Fair, Almanaque Galería, MX 2018 | Who I Was, What I've Become' Festival, Grece 2018 | Je n’attendrai pas que l’on me pardonne, Life Framer, Arles Festival. 2018 | Phifest festival, Milan 2018 | Photo London, Somerset House London 2018 | Borrador de un cuerpo intervenido, ArtexArte, Buenos Aires 2018 | The Poetry of Silence curation at Photofairs San Francisco. 2018 | Photofairs San Francisco, Almanaque, Gallery US 2018 | Material Art Fair, CD. MX 2017 | If You Leave Showcase, Truman Brewery London 2017 | PHmuseum, Born The Same Tour 2017 | Felix Schoeller Photo Award, Museum of Cultural History Osnabrück. 2017 | Viva, Contemporary Latin American Art from Shull private collection, Ashville. 2017 | Getxo Photo Festival curated by Monica Allende, Spain 2017 | #BORNTHESAME global tour Slideluck Editorial, Les Rencontres d’Arles 2017 | Photo Basel 2017 | Vanitas Spectacle, Almanaque Fotográfica gallery, Mexico 2017 | Sony Photography Awards, Somerset House London, UK 2017 | Vitamina A, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico 2017 | Lensculture Exposure Awards, International Festivals. 2017 | Aesthetica Art Prize, York Gallery, UK 2017 | Lucie Foundation, Month of Photography LA 2017 | Dab Art International Exhibition LA 2016 | Green Exhibition Darkroom Gallery , US 2016 | Stories Exhibition Gallery PH21, Budapest 2016 | MA Fashion Photography final show, Victoria House Basement, London 2015 | The Everyday and the Epic: MA Fashion Photography exhibition, Finland 2015 | The Everyday and the Epic: MA Fashion Photography exhibition, London 2015 | The Everyday and the Epic: MA Fashion Photography exhibition, SVA New York 2013 | Group Exhibition School of Visual Arts, Mexico
Reviews and Publications: 2024 | Vogue Portugal , Interview and portafolio Pest Control (feb PRINT) 2022 | Juxtapoz Magazine portfolio Winter issue, The Gorgeous Hitchhike 2021 | World photography Organization 2021 | Washington Post 2020 | GUP mag #67, Performance (Print and online), Netherlands 2019 | L'Officiel, Carte Blanche (Printed), Mexico 2018 | Sleek Magazine, Interview Issue 60, (Printed) 2018 | Rangefinder Magazine, Best portraits of 2018, (Printed) 2018 | Photo World Magazine, Interview, , (Printed) China 2017 | Zoom Magazine, project feature (printed), IT. 2017 | Der Greif, Jubilee Issue (printed). 2017 | The Best of LensCulture Boo k, published by Steidl. 2017 | Fisheye Magazine issue 23, Portfolio feature (printed), FR 2017 | Future Now: 100 Contemporary Artists Book, Aesthetica Magazine, UK 2017 | Good Bookeh Book, Dab Art, LACMA Permanent Collection 2016 | I-D
Awards and Honors: 2023 | L.A Times , Best Portraits of the year, Rodrigo Prieto 2023 | Foam Paul Huf Award nominee 2022 | TIME , best pictures of the year Steven Spielberg 2021 | TIME , best pictures of the year 2019 | 9 photographers to follow by W mag 2019 | LensCulture Storytelling Award , Winner 2019 | Foam Paul Huf Award nominee 2018 | Best Portraits of the Year, by Rangefinder Magazine 2018 | Photo London Artproof Schliemann Award 2018 | Foam Paul Huf Award nominee 2018 | Sony Photography Awards , Professional competition shortlisted, UK 2018 | New York Times Portfolio Review 2017 | Felix Schoeller Photo Award, nominee, GER 2017 | FONCA Jóvenes Creadores Scholarship, MX 2017 | Sony Photography Awards , National Award winner, UK 2017 | Life Framer, Series Award Finalist 2017 | Lensculture Exposure Awards , Finalist 2017 | Aesthetica Art Prize, Longlisted 2017 | Nexofoto, Shortlisted 2017 | Life Framer Open Call, Honorary Mention 2016 | ND Awards, Honorable Mention. 2016 | Aperture Foundation, #ApertureDearBill Winner, US 2016 | Juros Choice, Green Exhibition, US 2016 | Honorable mention, Stories Exhibition, Hungary
Education: 2014 - 2016 | University of the Arts London , MA Photography, London UK. 2009 - 2013 | CENTRO de Diseño, Cine y T.V. BA Architecture, Mexico city.
Artist Residency: 2019 | Photo London Artproof, Tallin 2018 | Photo London Schliemann, Les Rencontres d’Arles Artist Talks, TV appearance, Online guest: 2020 | Artist Talk and porftolio review, Bard College , US 2020 | Arstist Talk and studio visit, Photo London, UK 2020 | Artist Panel with Kulapat Yantrasast, ROSEGALLERY, LA 2020 | Artist Talk, Proceed To The Route, ROSEGALLERY, LA 2019 | Discovery Channel + CHANEL artist video portraits Mexico, TV 2019 | The New Yorker photo, Instagram Takeover. 2018 | DIOR, From Mexico To Dior, France 2018 | Der Greif, blog guest artist. 2018 | Ricardo Rocha, Radiofómula, TV. 2018 | Meet the Artist, The Poetry of Silence, Photofairs, SF 2017 | Masters of Photography, Sony Mexico, Auditorio Blackberry, MX. 2017 | LensCulture, Instagram Takeover. 2017 | Sin Perder de Vista: Tania Franco Klein . Cine Tonalá, MX 2017 | Vanitas Spectacle, Almanaque fotográfica, MX.
