Born in Uruguay and raised in both South and North America, Ana Vizcarra Rankin makes research-based and perceptual art about mapping, data visualization and our sense of being in and of the universe. Rankin has exhibited extensively, and her work is held in numerous collections, including Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Brandywine River Museum of Art, Uruguay Cultural Foundation for the Arts, Peoria Riverfront Museum, Brooklyn Art Library, and Print Council of Australia. Awards include a Project Stream Grant from Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, funding from Creative Capital x Skoll and many more.
Rankin participated in the first TrueQue Artist Residency in Ayampe Ecuador, was a Barnes Artist in Residence in Umbertide Italy, a resident artist at Liliput Experimental in Puebla Mexico, and is the founder of BrobDinGnag International, a curatorial exchange program focused on diversity and inclusion. She received her MFA from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, her BA in art history from Temple UniversitY and studied architecture design at Oklahoma State University. .