Francisco Maso (Havana, 1988) is a Cuban-born, Miami-based, AfroLatinx conceptual artist. He received a Bachelor degree in Stage Design from the Instituto Superior de Arte (2014). He also graduated from both Behavior Art School (2009), led by Tania Bruguera, and the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts (2007). Maso’s work delves into the contemporary understanding of “unconscious behaviors” and challenges what is accepted by society as natural, necessary, and normal. As a conceptual artist, he examines the concept of power and the relationships between blackness, civil rights, and the police system through his personal experiences in Cuba, Japan, and the United States.

Recent solo exhibitions include Francisco Maso. Documentary Abstraction at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles (2025), Who Kills Ai Weiwei? at Dimensions Variable (2022), and Where’s Your Favorite Place for Political Art at Home? at Locust Project (2021). Recent selected group exhibitions include Our Sway at Ringling Museum of Art (2025), Movements Toward Freedom at MCA Denver (2024), Counter/Surveillance: Control, Privacy, Agency at the Wende Museum (2024), You Belong Here: Place, People, and Purpose in Latinx Photography at Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum (2024), and Time for Change: Art and Social Unrest in the Jorge M. Pérez Collection at El Espacio 23 (2019). He was nominated to the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant (2020). He is a 2024 recipient of the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts residency program. Previously, he was an artist in residence at Hayama Artist Residency (2022), Oolite Arts’ Home + Away residency at Atlantic Center for the Arts (2020) and at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center (2022), and Artist in Residence in the Everglades (2022). Maso is a two-time finalist of the Cintas Foundation Fellowship in Visual Arts, a 2022 and 2020 Ellies Creator Award winner by Oolite Arts, a 2021 South Florida Cultural Consortium grant recipient, and a 2022 DV—AIRIE Award winner.