Carlos Franco

Statement

Terms like ‘The Cloud’ alienate us from the complex structures (physical and socio-political) by which the internet is supported and through which it is consumed by us, making it sound benign and ethereal, all the while it takes a heavy toll on the environment and on the human laborers that participate in its production.

CV Summary

b. 1985, Puerto Rico

Education

• 2014 Master of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.
• 2010 BA Philosophy / BA Fine Arts : Painting, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras campus.

Selected Exhibitions, Individual Exhibitions and Projects

• 2015 Salón Boricua: A Nation Specific Project (composed of individual collaborations with Nando Alvarez-Perez, Shay Arick, Rhys Bambrick, Marshall Elliott, and Mads Lynnerup), The Grey Square (part of the 4th San Juan Poly/Graphic Triennial of the Caribbean and Latin America), San Juan, PR. The Man Made Machine : a Title for The Myth of Pliny the Youngsta or The Works on Paper, Comment… Projects, San Francisco, CA.
• 2014 Franco Guevara : An Exercise (w. Conrad Guevara), The Thing Quarterly, San Francisco California. Sponsored by the San Francisco Arts Commission. Untitled (Playground), Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 2014 Franco Guevara @ The Hole (w. Conrad Guevara), SOMarts, San Francisco, CA.
• 2013 Franco Guevara(w. Conrad Guevara), The Lab, San Francisco, CA. There and Back Again: An Immigrant’s Tale by C. Franco Maldonado, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2010 Je Suis Eine Uhr, San Juan, PR.
• 2010 La Imposibilidad Metafísica del Espacio/La Imposibilidad Física de Crearlo, San Juan, PR.
• 2008 Es. Is. Am., University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR. -Group

Shows/Screenings/Performances

• 2016 Currently Untitled, Lvl3, Chicago, IL.
• 2015 Bordering, Ironton Gallery, Denver, CO. Fokus 2015 Film Festival, Nikolaj Kunsthal; Denmark.
• 2014 Something Completely Different, City Limits Gallery, Oakland, CA. Principal (M.F.A. Thesis Show), The Old Mint, San Francisco, CA. Refraction, Lobott Gallery, Oakland, CA. Fokus 2014 Film Festival (Awarded Finalist), Nikolaj Kunsthal; Denmark. Memory Overflow, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA. A Hole lot bout Nothing, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
• 2013 Soiled, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
• 2012 Rob The Noise Bank, The Lab, San Francisco, CA. Art By Telephone: Recalled, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
• 2011 Third Strike: 100 Performances in the Hole, SOMarts, San Francisco, CA.
• 2010 Arte Acusmatico: Experimental Music Series, Becket Theater, San Juan, PR.
• 2009 Alternate States of Art, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan PR.

Accomplishments/Grants/Residencies

• 2015 Residency, ACRE (The Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions), Steuben, WI.
• 2014 Awarded Finalist at the Fokus 2014 Film Festival, Nikolaj Kunsthal, Denmark.
• 2012-2014 SFAI Grant, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.
• 2010 Residency CAMAC (Center for Art, Science, and Technology) Marnay Sur-Seine, France. Artist Grant from Tenot Organization.

Teaching

• 2013 Teacher’s Assistant, Art & Revolution, Wafaa Yasin, San Francisco Art Institute.

Publishing

• 2015 Editor in Chief of It Girl by Matthew Scott Gualco and Conrad Guevara, published by AK Press. Notable Collection Mark van Proyen collection.

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