Overview
Francisco is an artist and a doctoral candidate at the University of Edinburgh’s department of Latin American Studies. As part of his artistic practice, Francisco has participated in residencies, developed public artworks, and facilitated socially engaged art projects focused on forced exile and displacement. His doctoral project, funded by the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council, approaches the Venezuelan migration through an interdisciplinary lens, drawing on literature, aesthetics, and digital culture to reveal transnational phenomena within Venezuelan diaspora culture. He is especially interested in the intersection of gender, race and class, and the legacies of extractivism and colonialism in the representation of Venezuelan migrants.
Francisco is a fellow artist and researcher at the University of Glasgow's UNESCO Chair Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts. He is Alchemy Film and Arts’ Researcher in Residence 2024, as part of which he is curating an extended programme for Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival 2025 focused on the Venezuelan refugee crisis.
Awards and Honors
Venezuelan Studies
Latin American Art
Politics and Performance
Digital Humanities
Petrocultures
Intersectionality and Migration