Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director Programs Curator
FRANCISCO GUEVARA
Biography
Francisco Jose Guevara is a Mexican visual artist and curator specializing in Levinasian ethics applied to the
design of transcultural artistic projects and the analysis of performativity in contemporary art practices. His
experience spans nearly 20 years of designing, curating, and managing art projects through visual arts education
and historiography of art, facilitating Development, sustainability and social transformation. As a visual artist,
Guevara investigates the historical construction of the differentiation process and its relationship with the
performativity of identity, including gender, class, and race.
Francisco Guevara was recently interviewed
on the Latinos Who Lunch podcast.
Listen to the full interview here.
Guevara studied painting at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP) and continued at the
Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana in Mexico City. He began his curating/arts management career with a year
of law studies at the Escuela Libre de Derecho (ELD) in Mexico City following with a semester of International
Relations at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). He received a University Expert title in
Management and Planning of Development Cooperation Projects in the Fields of Education, Science and Culture at
the Universidad Nacional de Estudios a Distancia (UNED) at Madrid, Spain, in coordination with the Organización
de Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (OEI). He has promoted numerous
international artistic exchange programs with Australia, Brazil, Ecuador, Hong Kong, Mexico, Paraguay, Spain, and
the USA.
As an artist, Guevara has had more than 20 solo shows and participated in multiple collective exhibits including the
Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City and the 10th Mexican Festival in Australia. His work can be
found in important private and public collections such as Colección Jumex, Museo Dolores Olmedo Patiño in
Mexico City, Lila Downs Collection Mexico, Ministry of Culture of Bolivia, Salma Hayek Collection USA, and the
Margrethe II Collection Denmark, among others.
In 2007 and 2008, the project Expandido VIII which Guevara curated with Mexican artist Raymundo Sesma was
awarded the AIA New Mexico Honor Award and the AIA Albuquerque Honor Award. Guevara was selected by The
Mexico Report as one of the
Biography
Francisco Jose Guevara is a Mexican visual artist and curator specializing in Levinasian ethics applied to the
design of transcultural artistic projects and the analysis of performativity in contemporary art practices. His
experience spans nearly 20 years of designing, curating, and managing art projects through visual arts education
and historiography of art, facilitating Development, sustainability and social transformation. As a visual artist,
Guevara investigates the historical construction of the differentiation process and its relationship with the
performativity of identity, including gender, class, and race.
Francisco Guevara was recently interviewed
on the Latinos Who Lunch podcast.
Listen to the full interview here.
Guevara studied painting at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP) and continued at the
Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana in Mexico City. He began his curating/arts management career with a year
of law studies at the Escuela Libre de Derecho (ELD) in Mexico City following with a semester of International
Relations at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). He received a University Expert title in
Management and Planning of Development Cooperation Projects in the Fields of Education, Science and Culture at
the Universidad Nacional de Estudios a Distancia (UNED) at Madrid, Spain, in coordination with the Organización
de Estados Iberoamericanos para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (OEI). He has promoted numerous
international artistic exchange programs with Australia, Brazil, Ecuador, Hong Kong, Mexico, Paraguay, Spain, and
the USA.
As an artist, Guevara has had more than 20 solo shows and participated in multiple collective exhibits including the
Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City and the 10th Mexican Festival in Australia. His work can be
found in important private and public collections such as Colección Jumex, Museo Dolores Olmedo Patiño in
Mexico City, Lila Downs Collection Mexico, Ministry of Culture of Bolivia, Salma Hayek Collection USA, and the
Margrethe II Collection Denmark, among others.
In 2007 and 2008, the project Expandido VIII which Guevara curated with Mexican artist Raymundo Sesma was
awarded the AIA New Mexico Honor Award and the AIA Albuquerque Honor Award. Guevara was selected by The
Mexico Report as one of the