Francisco Fernando Granados, design for a single sided, black and white 11×17” risograph, to be printed at Moniker Press, and released by Hammock Residency Press, in conjunction with their Archival Activation Residency with Hammock Residency, 2022.
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Francisco-Fernando Granados
Francisco-Fernando Granados was born in Guatemala and lives in Toronto, Dish With One Spoon Territory. 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 visual arts training, working in performance through artist-run spaces, studies in queer and feminist theory, and early activism as a peer support worker with immigrant and refugee communities in Vancouver, New Westminster, and Surrey on unceded Coast Salish territories. This layering of experiences trained his intuitions to seek site-responsive approaches, alternative forms of distribution, and the weaving of lyrical and critical propositions. Exhibition highlights include who claims abstraction? (2023-24) a solo project with SFU Galleries including a large installation of two murals, a publication and parallel curatorial project; foreward (2021-23), a series of site specific installations in dialogue with the permanent collection at The MacLaren Art Centre in Barrie; refugee reconnaissance (2021), a bilingual compilation of performance scores spanning 2005-2013 published by AXENÉO7; duet (2019-20) a traveling two-person exhibition alongside Canadian modernist painter Jack Bush in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Peterborough and The Robert McLaughlin Gallery; and co-respond-dance Version II (2020), an artist book published in collaboration with Centre des arts actuels Skol in Montreal. Other projects include a performance installation in partnership with Third Space Gallery and the YMCA Newcomer Connections Centre in St. John New Brunswick, public art installations for Mercer Union and Nuit Blanche in Toronto, and 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.
