Francisco Donoso

Bio: Francisco Donoso (b.1988) is a transnational artist and curator based between NYC and Miami. He will be participating in NADA House and the LMCC Workspace Residency in Fall 2023.

Originally from Ecuador, but raised in Miami, FL, he's been a recipient of DACA since 2013. He received his BFA from Purchase College and has participated in fellowships and residencies at Wave Hill as a Van Lier Fellow, Stony Brook University, The Bronx Museum Artist in the Marketplace, and the Kates-Ferri Projects Residency among others. Francisco has participated in solo and group exhibitions throughout the US notably at El Museo del Barrio, The Bronx Museum of Arts, Children's Museum of Manhattan, Wave Hill, Kates-Ferri Projects, Field Projects, Second Street Gallery, Club Gallery, Baik+Khnessyer, and SPRING/BREAK LA. He is a recipient of an Artist Corp Grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a Cultural Solidarity Fund Grant.

Artist Statement: I’m interested in the optical, emotive, and tactile qualities of color and its potential for materializing the infinite, transcendental and phenomenological. Using layered, semi-transparent mylar, my mixed-media paintings embody luminosity and feature an abstracted chain-link fence motif. Through this abstraction, I subvert assumptions about migration, borders, and undocumentedness, collapsing binaries and reaching beyond physical barriers to excavate hidden dimensions of migration. The result is a psychedelic realm that transforms the fence into a portal to a liberated interiority, consciously uncolonizable.

His work is in corporate and many private collections like Capital One Collection, Francis J. Greenburger and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Collection. Donoso’s work has been written about in Art & Object, Hyperallergic, CRUSHfanzine, The Latinx Project Intervenxions, The Financial Times, and The Village Voice, among others. He is represented by Kates-Ferri Projects in NYC.

Selected Exhibitions: 2021-22 Bronx Calling: Fifth AIM Biennial, The Bronx Museum of Arts, Bronx, NY 2022 Homecoming, Kates-Ferri Projects, New York, NY 2021 if still ourselves, a thing to become, Baik+Khnessyer, curated by Joey Lico, Los Angeles, CA 2020 Reclaimed, Reimagined, Field Projects, curated by David Rios Ferreira, New York, NY 2019 A Bronx Tale, Latchkey Gallery, Bronx, NY, Latinx, La Bodega Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2018 People I Love Who Are Far Away, E.Tay Gallery, New York, NY

Awards and Residencies: 2021 Kates-Ferri Projects Artist Residency, New York, NY, The Neighbors Artist Residency, Chicago, IL, City Artist Corp Grant, The New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY, Cultural Solidarity Fund Grant, New York, NY 2019 Race Forward Racial Equity in the Arts Innovation Lab 2018 Artist in the Marketplace, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY 2014 Stony Brook University Artist in Residence, Stony Brook, NY 2013 Van Lier Fellowship at Wave Hill, Bronx, NY 2011-12 Post-Bacc Fellowship at New York Center for Art and Media Studies, New York, NY

Selected Press: CRUSHfanzine, The Latinx Project Intervenxions, Art Frankly, Art Zealous, The Village Voice, The Financial Times

Social: @DonosoStudio