Francisco Baquerizo (b. 1993, Quito, Ecuador)
Currently living and working in the Netherlands.
Baquerizo obtained a MA in Fine Arts from HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, the Netherlands (2022) and a BA in Visual Arts from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador (2017). His first solo exhibition, Observando: el tiempo, was presented in 2017 at Fondo de Cultura Económica del Ecuador, Quito. His work has been presented in group exhibitions in various art spaces across Ecuador. Baquerizo was shortlisted for Premio Brasil, Arte Emergente 2017, a prestigious prize for emerging artists in Ecuador. He was selected to participate in the Molten Capital Artistic Residency, Santiago de Chile, Chile, in 2018. His publication Escrito en Piedra (“Written in Stone”), a collaboration with Adrián Balseca, published by Terminal Ediciones (2019), is held in the library of the Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona (MACBA), Spain, and has been presented at art book fairs around the world.