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.
