AIRIE Fellow
Francisco Masó
2022 May
Visual Art
Miami, FL
Francisco Masó is an AfroLatinx visual artist living and working in Miami, Florida. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Stage Design from the Instituto Superior de Arte (2014) and is a graduate of both the Behavior Art School (2009) and the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts (2007). Recent solo exhibitions include Where’s Your Favorite Place for Political Art at Home? at Locust Projects, Miami, Florida (2021). Selected group exhibitions include Where there is Power at Oolite Arts, Miami, Florida (2021), “A.I.M Biennial.” South Florida. (2020), and Time for Change: Art and Social Unrest in the Jorge M. Pérez Collection at El Espacio 23, Miami, FL (2019). Masó is a nominee of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant (2020). He received the Oolite Arts’ Home + Away residency at Atlantic Center for the Arts (2020). He is a two-time finalist of the Cintas Foundation Fellowship in Visual Arts, a 2020 Ellies Creator Award winner by Oolite Arts, and a 2021 South Florida Cultural Consortium grant recipient.
BIO
About the work Everglades Historical Pigments series, 2022, from Passages at the Nest
Everglades Historical Pigments Set (2022 – ongoing) is a collection of dry black pigments created to provide tools for representing the hidden and fragmented stories of the Black communities in the Everglades. The series took inspiration from the settlements of the Caribbean groups and the African American Civilian Conservation Corps, brought to the area to eradicate the pink bollworm infestation from the wild cotton plants during the 1930s.