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Artists›Flor Garduño

Flor Garduño

Mexican, 1957

WA-00027224

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MoMA

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BiographyMoMA· 93%✓
Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
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MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/2081
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

Why this artist matters now

Flor Garduño is a Mexican photographer known for large-scale black-and-white images that combine portraiture, still life, and sculptural form into dreamlike, densely layered compositions. Working primarily in platinum print and gelatin silver, her work explores the body as an object of formal investigation, often incorporating textiles, minerals, and architectural elements into constructed scenes. Her practice emerged during Mexico's postwar period and engages questions of identity, materiality, and the photographic image itself as a physical artifact.

Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 1mo ago

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Museum of Modern ArtNew York Art Institute of Chicago

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Artworks (10)

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The Sonnets of Shakespeare

2006 · 10 bound platinum prints, 1 freestanding platinum print

Cleveland Museum of Art

Ojo con Circulo (Eye with Circle)

1993 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 46.1 × 29.4 cm (18 3/16 × 11 5/8 in.); Paper: 50.8 × 40.4 cm (20 × 15 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Pata y Mano (Foot and Hand)

1993 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 45.6 × 33.9 cm (18 × 13 3/8 in.); Paper: 50.5 × 40.7 cm (19 15/16 × 16 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Virgen, Bolivia

1990 · Gelatin silver print

12 × 9" (30.5 × 22.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Regresso a la tierra, Sololá, Guatemala (Return to Earth, Sololá, Guatemala)

1989 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 33.5 × 45.8 cm (13 1/4 × 18 1/16 in.); Paper: 40.6 × 50.4 cm (16 × 19 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Reina (Queen)

1989 · Gelatin silver print

12 1/4 × 8 3/4" (31.1 × 22.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Canasta de Luz, Guatemala (Basket of Light), from series "Witnesses of Time"

1989 · Gelatin silver print

12 × 9" (30.5 × 22.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Falleció Maria Verónica, Tixán, Ecuador (Maria Veronica is Dead, Tixán, Ecuador)

1988 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 33.9 × 45.8 cm (13 3/8 × 18 1/16 in.); Paper: 40.7 × 50.5 cm (16 1/16 × 19 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Games (Juegos)

1982 · Gelatin silver print, printed 1986

9 × 11 7/8" (23 × 30.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Plum Tree (El Arbol de los Circelos)

1982 · Gelatin silver print, printed 1986

9 × 11 7/8" (23 × 30.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (3)

10 published of 15 catalogued · 11 with image

MoMA
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Art Institute Chicago
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Cleveland Museum of Art
1 published

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1 entries · 1 sources

The Sonnets of Shakespeare
2006 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Art Institute of Chicago

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Museum of Modern Art Art Institute of Chicago

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Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

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