Andrea Franco
b. Lima, Peru
Lives and works in Los Angeles


Education
California Insititute of the Arts, MFA 2012
University of Miami, BFA 2004

Solo Exhibitions

To Make Cinema and Other Poetic Objects, Vigil Gonzales 2021
Azul Distante, Vigil Gonzales OVR 2020
Entre Planos, Vigil Gonzales, Lima 2019


Selected Group Exhibitions & Screenings

Doorknobs, Fatamorganas and Cat Whiskers, The Hollywood Hills House, 2025
Lima Alterna International Film Festival, Peru 2024
Mystery Villa No.1, Society of Art Los Angeles, 2024
Ritual Studies I, Desnivel Gallery, New York 2023
Muestra de Cine de Lanzarote, 2022
Cine Toro Film Festival, Colombia 2022
Museum of the Moving Image, First Look Festival 2022
El Cine Crecerá como una Planta, Centro de Cultura Digital, Mexico 2022
Nothing Gold Can Stay, Group Show, Vigil Gonzales, Cuzco 2022
BAM Brooklyn, Uncharted Cartographies: Remapping Latin American Through Cinema 2021
Corriente, Encuentro Latinoamericano de Cine de No Ficción, 2021
Cámara Lucida, International Film Festival, Ecuador 2021
Lima Alterna International Film Festival, Peru 2021 
Tracking Movement to Reinvent Narratives curated by Daniela Lieja Quintanar, Gallery Platform LA 2020
About Plants, La Galerie Imaginaire, Mindo, Ecuador 2020
Premio ICPNA Arte Contemporaneo, Final Exhibition. ICPNA Lima 2020
Cosmogonías, Museo Metropolitano de Lima 2019
Cine de Artistas, Fundacion OSDE, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2019
De Norte a Sur, Territorios Latinoamericanos en Celuloide, Ocho y Medio Ecuador 2019
MAPA Zurich, Latin American Landscapes in Video Art, 2019
Cineteca Nacional de Mexico, Mexico D.F. 2018
Ism, Ism, Ism: Experimental Cinema in Latin America, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. REDCAT, Los Angeles 2017.  
Esto (no) es cine. Sala Luis Miro Quesada Garland, Lima, 2017
Open Air Prisons, LACE Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, September 14 – November 6, 2016
AmDocs- American Documentary Film Festival, Palm Springs, CA, 2015
Jornadas del Documental Peruano en Madrid, Casa America, Madrid 2014
Under the Same Sun: Tropical Uncanny, Guggenheim Museum, New York 2014
Flaherty Seminar NYC Spring Series, Fractured Spaces, 2013
BAFICI Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente, Argentina, 2013
Muestra de Cine Independiente Peruano, MALI Mueso de Arte de Lima, Peru, 2013
Santiago Festival Internacional de Cine, Chile, 2013
Cine Las Americas, Austin TX, 2013
Festival Iberoamericano de Cine Digital, Lima Peru, 2013
Zinebi: Festival Internacional de Cine Documental y Cortometraje de Bilbao, Spain, 2012
Festival de Cine de Lima, Peru, 2012
Matadero Madrid, 2012
REDCAT, Roy and Edna Disney/Calarts Theater. Los Angeles, CA, 2012
XI Muestra Documental Peruano, 2012
MMXII CalArts MFA/ART Graduate Exhibition. L.A. Mart, Los Angeles, CA, 2012
In Ancón, Solo Show, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA 2012
Untitled, Susan Vielmetter Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2012
X Muestra DocuPeru, Lima, Peru 2012
We Got Next, Untitled Art Projects, Los Angeles, CA 2012
Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, 2012
Zinegoak: Bilbao Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, 2010
DocuPeru, Documentary Film Festival Peru, 2010
DocuPeru, Lima, Peru, 2010
Atlanta Film Festival, 2009
Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, 2009
Festival de Cine de Lima, Peru, 2009
Lisbon Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, 2009
Seattle Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, 2009
Una Mirada al Sur Madrid, 2009
Costa Rica International Film Festival, 2009
Miami Beach Cinematheque, Visiting Artist Series, 2006
Center for Latin American Studies, University of Miami, 2006
Festival de Cine de Lima, Peru, 2005

Awards
Best National Film, Notes on Connection III, Lima Alterna International Film Festival 2021
Best Documentary Film, Cuentame de Bia, Festival Iberoamericano de Cine Digital, Peru 2013

Curating
I was not Sent, I was summoned, Glendale Community College Art Gallery, 2020 
The Order of Nature, François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2019
Tiempo Circular, Centro Cultural España, Lima 2018 
Lima Independiente, Film Programmer, Fronteras Destruidas, 2015 - 2018

Residencies and Visiting Artist
Berlinale Talents, 2013
Harvard University, Sensory Ethnography Lab, 2012
Independent Feature Project Fiscal Sponsorship, 2006


Bibliography

Proctor, Maximilien Luc. “Persistent Visions,” Screen Slate, March 2022

Una Conversación entre el Cine y el Arte, by Dan Lerner. Revista Cosas Peru, 2018

El cine sin butacas, by Juan Carlos Fangacio. El Comercio, Peru

Crossing Paths: Latina and Latin American Women Filmmakers in Los Angeles

Oscilaciones Entre Imágenes, Fronteras Destruidas 2016, by Geraldine Salles, Desistfilm 2016

Fractured Spaces: Flaherty NYC

Peruvians Selected for Berlinale Talent Campus 2013, Cineencuentro

Preview: 2012 MFA Art Exhibition Opens in Los Angeles

En Ancón. At Least Everyone Has A Hat. by Jessica Castillo

Fiacid 2013: Del intimismo frontal: Cuéntame de Bia

FIACID 2013: Cuéntame de Bía: Herencia de Cineasta

Santiago Festival Internacional de Chile: ENTREVISTA Andrea Franco Batievsky

In the Spotlight: Long-form Films at Showcase 2012

Festival de Lima 2012: “Cuéntame de Bia”, documental sobre Bernardo Batievsky