Francisco Maso

Francisco Maso is a Cuban-born, AfroLatinx conceptual artist born in Havana in 1988, who works in Miami. His practice examines social conditioning, power, and the relationship between blackness, civil rights, and policing. He trained at the Instituto Superior de Arte and Tania Bruguera's Behavior Art School. Maso was a 2022 resident at the Hayama Artist Residency in Japan. His other residencies include Oolite Arts' Home + Away program, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, the Everglades AIRIE program, and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in 2024. He has also been selected for a Bakehouse x Cité internationale des arts residency in Paris. His projects include Post PostProduction Project, Aesthetic Register of Covert Forces, and Obtuse Exercises for Dissenting Bodies. He has been a finalist for the Cintas Foundation Fellowship twice and was nominated for a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant.