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Francisco-Fernando Granados was born in Guatemala City and lives in Toronto, Dish With One Spoon Territory. Since 2005, his practice has traced a movement from Convention Refugee to critical citizen, enacting abstraction site-specifically and relationally to create a body of work that challenges the stability of practices of recognition. His way of working developed from the intersection of formal painterly training, working in performance through artist-run spaces, the study of queer and feminist theory, and early activism as a peer support worker with immigrant and refugee communities in Coast Salish Territories in the West Coast. These experiences trained his intuitions to seek context-responsive approaches, alternative forms of distribution, and the weaving of lyrical and critical propositions. Key projects include 'confluence' (2021-26), a permanent public artwork located at the Cumberland St. entrance of Bay Station on the TTC.  In 2024, the Gibson Museum at Simon Fraser University published a monograph dedicated to his non-figurative work titled who claims abstraction (with a difference)?

2025-7: Doctoral Award – Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

2021: Explore and Create: Research and Creation – Canada Council for the Arts

2016: Project Grants to Visual Artists – Canada Council for the Arts

2010: Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship Program, Master’s Scholarship – Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

2010: Governor General’s Silver Medal for Academic Achievement – Government of Canada