Guatemala/Canada
https://francisco-fernando-granados.blogspot.com/
Francisco-Fernando Granados (he/him) 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 formal painterly 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 unceded Coast Salish territories.
Key projects include who claims abstraction? (2023–2024) a solo exhibition and book produced with SFU Galleries; foreward (2021–2023), a series of site specific installations in dialogue with the permanent collection at The MacLaren Art Centre; and refugee reconnaissance (2021), a bilingual compilation of performance scores spanning 2005–2013 published by AXENÉO7. Performances include actions for the Vancouver Art Gallery, the LIVE Biennial of Performance Art (Vancouver); Darling Foundry, SBC galerie d’art contemporaine, MAI Montréal, arts interculturels (Montréal); Mayworks Festival of Working People & the Arts, Gallery TPW (Toronto); Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival, and Northwestern University (USA). Other highlights include participation in international group shows on contemporary queer aesthetics in the USA at the Hessel Museum (2015) and Ramapo College (2016), and Malmö Konstmuseum (2022) in Sweden.
© Francisco-Fernando Granados, stop pretending this is a child’s adventure, Affections diasporiques, SBC galerie d’art contemporain, Montréal. 2025. Photo James Knott.
