I create mixed media works that explore the psychic spaces of migration: the psychological, emotional, spiritual, memory and unseen terrains. My work blurs the boundaries between abstraction and recognizable imagery, such as landscape, to excavate the hidden dimensions and textures of migration, and transformation. 

 I utilize references of the water, the land, and the celestial in my work to explore the spiritual potentials inherent in them, and collapse simplistic binaries of here/there, in/out, by flowing in between these spaces. The chain-link fence is a central motif in my work that has come to represent the enduring presence of grief. A contemporary symbol for separation, migration, and borders, the fence first emerged from my experience of being an undocumented DACA recipient in the US. and now is like a ghost representing the unseen forces that shape migratory experiences and echo the resonance of past lives. 

I use my personal archive, including photography, scans of immigration documents and ID cards, poetry, and paintings to draw connections between my lived experience as an undocumented DACA recipient and the socio-political and spiritual landscapes I navigate. I often layer these sources through experimental printmaking over paintings to create imperfect and variable editions, artist-books and weavings.

Francisco Donoso is a transnational artist and curator based in NYC. He recently completed the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Residency 2023-24, and participated in La Feria: Print Media Fair at The Latinx Project, NYU. He recently curated Ghosts at PS122 Gallery and co-curated The Psychic Landscape at NYC Culture Club. His upcoming 3-part curatorial project launches in December 2024 at Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, VA with That Feels Good! Labor as Pleasure. 

Originally from Ecuador, but raised in Miami, FL, he's been a recipient of DACA since 2013. He received his BFA from Purchase College and has participated in fellowships and residencies at Wave Hill as a Van Lier Fellow, Stony Brook University, The Bronx Museum Artist in the Marketplace, among others. Francisco has participated in solo and group exhibitions throughout the US notably at El Museo del Barrio, The Bronx Museum of Arts, Children's Museum of Manhattan, Wave Hill, NADA House, Kates-Ferri Projects, Field Projects, Second Street Gallery, Baik+Khnessyer, and SPRING/BREAK LA. He is a recipient of an Artist Corp Grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a Cultural Solidarity Fund Grant.

His work is in corporate and many private collections like Capital One Collection and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Collection. Donoso’s work has been written about in Art & Object, Cultbytes, Hyperallergic, CRUSHfanzine, The Latinx Project Intervenxions, The Financial Times, and The Village Voice among others.