Francisco Donoso

Born in Quito, Ecuador / Works in New York

BIO

Francisco Donoso is a NYC-based transnational artist, curator, and educator originally from Ecuador. A DACA recipient, he’s exhibited widely, including at El Museo del Barrio and The Bronx Museum. He’s a 2025 New Voices artist at The Print Center New York and curated Obsesión! Labor as Pleasure at apexart NYC (Sept 5–Oct 25, 2025). He was a Van Lier Fellow and completed notable residencies at LMCC, Wave Hill and Stony Brook University. Donoso teaches with Booklyn and MoMA, and his work is held in major public and private collections.

My multidisciplinary practice explores the psychic dimensions of migration through material layering, personal archives, and world-building. Working in printmaking, collage, painting, and more, I use imagery like chain-link fences and oceans as symbols of displacement, and multiplicity. As a DACA recipient, I navigate liminal spaces shaped by surveillance and memory. My work resists fixed narratives, embracing speculative freedom. Teaching is integral to my practice, centering experimentation and counter-histories to foster connection, visibility, and art as a tool for survival and transformation.