Francisco-Fernando Granados
historias de amor de la historia del círculo

Francisco-Fernando Granados was born in Guatemala and lives in Toronto, Dish With One Spoon Territory. Since 2005, his practice has traced the movement from convention refugee to critical citizen, enacting abstraction performatively, site-specifically, and relationally to create projects that challenge the stability of practices of recognition. Key exhibitions include ‘who claims abstraction?’ (2023-24) a solo show and curatorial intervention produced with SFU Galleries (Vancouver BC); ‘foreward’ (2021-23), a series of site specific installations in dialogue with the permanent collection at The MacLaren Art Centre (Barrie ON); and ‘refugee reconnaissance’ (2021), a bilingual compilation of performance scores spanning 2005-2013 exhibited at AXENÉO7 (Gatineau QC). Other highlights include participation in international group shows on contemporary queer aesthetics at the Hessel Museum (2015) and Ramapo College (2016) in the United States and Malmö Konstmuseum (2022) in Sweden. His monograph ‘who claims abstraction (with a difference)?’ (2023) was published by SFU Galleries and Publication Studio Edmonton.