Carlos Franco-Ruiz

Carlos Franco (°1987, Managua, Nicaragua) is an artist who mainly works with painting. Graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Miami. By taking daily life as subject matter, he explores the lost spaces of our surrounding. His paintings reference recognizable landscapes transmuted into a color field through the abstractions of hues. The result is a deconstruction of an environment ignored.

By exploring the concept of landscape in this fashion, his images become a moment of extraction and addition, created through the layering of varnish as the painting progresses. His works explore to challenge conceived notion that everyday existence is mundane. Carlos Franco currently lives and works in Sauce, Uruguay.

University of Miami, Bachelor of Fine Arts- Painting 2011

Solo Exhibition:

Espacio sin Memoria, Centro Cultural Kavlin, Punta del Este, Uruguay 2018

Fractured Moments, US Embassy, Montevideo, Uruguay 2017

Fractured Moments, Centro Cultural Casa de Artigas, Sauce, Uruguay 2016

Fractured Moments, Roggia Galerie, Montevideo, Uruguay 2015

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2017

Hispanic Heritage Doral Art Exhibit, Doral City Hall, Doral, FL

3ra Edicion Colecciones Privadas, Museo Mazzoni, Punta Del Este, Uruguay

Clodomiro Lazarte y una ronda de amigos V edición, San Miguel de Tucuman, Argentina

2016

Art Beat Miami, 3rd Edition, Little Haiti, Miami, FL

Recontra Bienal, Casa de Filosofia, Montevideo, Uruguay

La Mirada del Otro, Museo de Las Migraciones, Montevideo, Uruguay

Colectivo UY, Fundacion Fucac, Montevideo, Uruguay

La Mirada del Otro, Museo del Azulejo, Montevideo, Uruguay

Troca, Paullier y Guana, Montevideo, Uruguay

2008-2012

Forest, exhibition and talk, Miami Dade County Library, Miami Beach, FL 2012

Bachelor of Fine Arts Graduation Show, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 2011