Francisco Masó

Francisco Masó (b. 1988, Havana, CU) is a Cuban-born, AfroLatinx conceptual artist living and working in Miami. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Stage Design from the Instituto Superior de Arte, Havana, CU, and completed his education at both the Behavior Art School, under the tutelage of Tania Bruguera, and the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts in Havana, CU.

Masó’s work investigates the contemporary understanding of “unconscious behaviors” and critically examines what society accepts as natural, necessary and normal. His practice explores the concept of power and the relationships between blackness, civil rights, and the police system drawing on personal experiences in Cuba, Japan, and the United States.

Recent solo exhibitions include Who Kills Ai Weiwei?, Dimensions Variable, Miami FL; Where’s Your Favorite Place for Political Art at Home?, Locust Projects, Miami, FL and Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL. Select group exhibitions include Our Sway, Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL; Movements Toward Freedom, MCA Denver, CO; Counter/Surveillance: Control, Privacy, Agency, The Wende Museum, Culver City, CA; You Belong Here: Place, People, and Purpose in Latinx Photography at Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Westchester, FL; Paint the Protest, Off Paradise, New York, NY; Time for Change: Art and Social Unrest in the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, El Espacio 23, Miami, FL, among others. Masó is a recipient of the Ellies Creator Award by Oolite Arts, Miami, FL.