Mexican photographer born in 1990, Tania Franco Klein stages characters caught in artificial lights and the contradictory demands of Western dreams. Her universe, at the intersection of David Lynch’s cinema and the staged photography of Jeff Wall or Gregory Crewdson, subtly reveals the silent anxieties of our contemporary lives. Backed by growing international recognition and her inclusion in major institutions, she is firmly established as an artist to watch in the landscape of contemporary photography.
Franco Klein’s work has been acclaimed by the international press, including ARTFORUM, CNN, the Los Angeles Times, i-D Magazine, The Guardian, The Paris Review, JUXTAPOZ, Aperture Foundation, The British Journal of Photography, The Washington Post, and Vogue. She also contributes to The New York Times, TIME, The New Yorker, FT Weekend, New York Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Vogue, and Dior.
Tania’s installations have been exhibited across Europe, the United States, and Mexico. Her first publication, Positive Disintegration (2019), was nominated for the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation First Book Award. Her works are part of the permanent collections of the MoMA in New York and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.