About the work

Francisco Rodríguez (b. 1989, Santiago, Chile) lives and works in London. He holds a BFA in Painting from Universidad de Chile, Santiago and graduated with an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Arts in 2018.
The world that Francisco Rodríguez paints is one of magical realism, a hybrid of the fantastical and the everyday. His visual language references that of film and comics, creating a storyboard of compositions and inviting the viewer to explore the potential narrative links between them. In doing so the audience is rendered complicit, both participant and outsider, insomniac voyeur awaiting the next act.

Date and country of birth

1989, CL

Career Highlights

Recent solo exhibitions include:

The Weight of the Night, Cooke Latham Gallery (2023);

The City and the Dogs, White Space, China (2022);

The Silence that Lives in Houses, Cooke Latham Gallery, London (2021);

Cuaderno Canario, Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain (2020);

The Burning Plain, Cooke Latham Gallery, London (2018);

the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago (2018).

Group exhibitions include:

Art Basel, White Space Gallery, Hong Kong, China (2023);

ARCO Madrid, Galeria Leyendecker, Madrid, Spain (2023);

Art 021, White Space Gallery, Shanghai, China (2022);

A Higher Calling, White Space, Beijing, China (2021).