This Artists' Talk with Francisco-Fernando Granados is part of the Art Forums Speaker Series and held in conjunction with FRMS 300, an interdisciplinary course at ECUAD.

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About Francisco-Fernando Granados

Francisco-Fernando Granados was born in Guatemala and lives in Toronto. His family home is in New Westminster, the unceded and unsurrendered land of the Halkomelem speaking peoples. Since 2005, his practice has traced his movement from convention refugee to critical citizen, using abstraction performatively, site-specifically, and relationally to create projects that challenge the stability of practices of recognition. His work has developed from the intersection of formal painterly training at Langara College, working in performance through artist-run spaces, studies in queer and feminist theory at Emily Carr University, and early activism as a peer support worker with immigrant and refugee communities.

Recent projects include foreward, a year-long solo exhibition consisting of site specific installations in dialogue with the permanent collection at The MacLaren Art Centre in Barrie ON, and duet, a traveling two-person exhibition alongside Canadian modernist painter Jack Bush in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Peterborough and The Robert McLaughlin Gallery. Other exhibition highlights include participation in international group shows on contemporary queer aesthetics at the Hessel Museum and Ramapo College in the United States, and Malmö Konstmuseum in Sweden. In 2022, Granados began a PhD in Media & Design Innovation at Toronto Metropolitan University.