Ana Vizcarra Rankin

Ana Vizcarra Rankin (A.V., pronounced Ay-vee) is an artist whose work examines the systems humans use to understand, represent, and locate themselves within the world. Born in Uruguay and raised across South and North America, Rankin brings a transnational perspective to inherited systems of orientation and representation. Working across painting, installation, sculpture, data visualization, and collaborative practice, Rankin draws from cartography, astronomy, environmental systems, and perceptual science to investigate how visual languages shape our understanding of territory, scale, place, and the physical universe.
Maps function throughout her practice not simply as images of place, but as cultural and political constructions that determine what is centered, named, measured, and made visible. Her work moves between intimate and monumental scales, connecting individual perception and the vast scales of collective spatial understanding.


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Ana Vizcarra Rankin hace dibujos, pinturas y esculturas sobre los viajes y la cartografía. Recientemente ha estado estudiando mapas astronómicos y las imágenes capturadas utilizando gran telescopios y otras tecnologías de mediación gráfica, como los sistemas de posicionamiento global. Estas...

2012 MFA Studio Art Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
2010 BA Art History Temple University Tyler School of Art summa cum laude
2006 Drawing Marathon New York Studio School

Solo and Two Person

2025- Beyond the Edge - Greenville Center for Creative Arts (w/
Liondsey Godin) Greenville SC
2024- Neplanta - Maps for Uncharted Futures , Center for Visual Arts,
Brookdale Community College, Lincroft NJ
2023- Centering the Edge - City Arts Salon (w/ Philippa Beardsley)
Philadelphia PA; Reality in Quotes - Philiput Philadelphia PA
2022- Big Maps for a Small Planet - Cherry Street Pier Philadelphia PA
2021- Biospheres - HotBed (with Marguerita Hagan) Philadelphia PA
2020- Butterfly Effect - PCA&D Lancaster, PA
2019- Everything Counts - Kitchen Table Gallery Philadelphia PA; Ana
Vizcarra Rankin , Philiput Philadelphia PA
2018- Flesh Planetarium - Factory Works Williamsport PA
International Constructivism Da Vinci Art Alliance (w/ Julio
Mariño) Philadelphia PA
2017- Time/ Scale - Brandywine River Museum of Art Chadds Ford, PA;
Sky/Skin - James Oliver Gallery Philadelphia PA; Coruscando
- Liliput Galeria Experimental Puebla, Mexico; Infinite/Infinitesimal
- Warren County Community College Washington NJ2015 Salon
de Bellas Artes, Uruguayan Embassy
2015- Sky/Ground...