My multidisciplinary practice explores the psychic dimensions of migration through material layering, archival excavation, and world-building. Working across painting, printmaking, drawing, collage, bookmaking, and weaving, I use personal archives—photographs, immigration documents, ID cards, poetry—as raw material to navigate the emotional and spiritual terrain of undocumented life. Recurring motifs like the chain-link fence act as ghosts—symbols of separation and displacement that mark the quiet, enduring presence of grief.

As a DACA recipient, I move through liminal spaces shaped by both state surveillance and personal memory. My work collapses binaries of here/there and in/out, creating visual portals that resist fixed narratives and affirm speculative freedom. Printmaking is a central methodology, allowing me to repeat, distort, and reflect—slowing down the consumption of images and inviting deeper engagement with time, identity, and loss.

Teaching is an extension of my studio practice. I center experimentation, process, and narrative reclamation—guiding students in using their own archives to create counter-histories. Whether in workshops or exhibitions, I strive to cultivate spaces for visibility, connection, and transformation. Through layering, fragmentation, and improvisation, I position art as a tool for survival and imagination—a practice of resistance, tenderness, and collective meaning-making.

Francisco Donoso is a transnational artist, curator and educator based in NYC. He’s part of the 2025 New Voices cohort at The Print Center New York, and recently completed the LMCC Workspace Residency 2023-24, participated in La Feria: Print Media Fair at The Latinx Project NYU, and curated That Feels Good! Labor as Pleasure in Charlottesville, VA. He teaches zine-making with Booklyn, and teaches the Open Art Space for LGBTQ+ teens at MoMA. He’s also a regular contributor to Impulse Magazine. 

Originally from Ecuador, he's been a recipient of DACA since 2012. He received his BFA from Purchase College and has participated in residencies at Wave Hill as a Van Lier Fellow, Stony Brook University, The Bronx Museum AIM, among others. He’s exhibited throughout the US notably at El Museo del Barrio, The Bronx Museum of Arts, Children's Museum of Manhattan, NADA House, 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 artist books are available through Booklyn. 

His work is in collections like Pennsylvania State University Libraries, Capital One Collection and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Collection. Donoso’s work has been written about in Art & Object, Hyperallergic, Impulse Magazine, Intervenxions, The Financial Times, and The Village Voice among others.