Tania Franco Klein, a photographer based in Mexico City, has been named one of the ten artists in the Artsy Vanguard 2027, the platform's annual selection of emerging talent, now in its ninth year. The cohort was chosen from more than nine hundred nominations submitted by galleries around the world, and each artist is featured in a video series visiting their studio and city.

Franco Klein builds conceptual photographic tableaux, videos and installations that examine modern anxiety, media overstimulation and conditioned desire. She is frequently her own set builder, lighting technician and model, spending days constructing a single image in her studio in the Roma Norte neighbourhood, a space crowded with props and personal histories that find their way into the work. Her recent series RAGE explores the commercialisation of anger, presenting rage as an emotion that is widely felt and deliberately manufactured by media and political forces. The series includes marble, granite and photographic wall plaques carrying lines drawn from her fifty-line Manifesto of Rage.

She opened RAGE, her debut solo exhibition with Yancey Richardson in New York, this autumn, and is represented by that gallery and by ROSEGALLERY in Los Angeles. Her work appeared in the Museum of Modern Art's New Photography 2025: Lines of Belonging and is held in the collections of MoMA, the Getty Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others. She also shot Versace's spring-summer 2026 campaign earlier this year. Born in 1990, she studied architecture in Mexico City before taking a master's in photography in London. This year's Vanguard also introduces an acquisition prize with the Brooklyn Museum, with the winner to be announced on 13 November.