Fanny Sanín

Fanny Sanín Sader (born 1938) is a Colombian born artist from Bogotá who resides in New York City. The daughter of Gabriel Sanín Tobón and Fanny Sader Guerra, she is best known for her paintings of abstract geometric forms and colors. She is considered to be part of the second generation of abstract artists from Colombia. She was awarded an Honoris Causa de Magíster en Artes (honorary master's degree of art) by University of Antioquia in February, 2015.

She graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Los Andes in 1960 in 1960. She continued her studies in the areas of printmaking and art history at the University of Illinois. While living in London in the late 1960s, she studied engraving at the Chelsea School of Art.

Specific influences which she has cited include Ellsworth Kelly, Wassily Kandinsky, and Henri Matisse.

• 1993 Colombia Award in Art
• 2006 Premio Colombia Exterior a la Excelencia

In 1993 her painting, Acrylic No. 6, was added to the Art Museum of the Americas's Permanent Collection. Some of her other works have been added to the permanent collections of the Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Museo de Arte Abstracto Manuel Felguérez (2003), Museo del Barrio de Nueva York (2011), National Museum of Women in the Arts (2011), Museo La Tertulia (2013), and the Museo Nacional de Colombia (2015).

Among the temporary exhibits in which she has participated are the Pinta Art Show (2007) and the Durban Segnini Gallery's Abstracción y Constructivismo: Continuidad y ruptura de la modernidad Latinoamericana (2015).