Franco Andrés (b. 1978, Miami, FL) is an artist working across painting, sculpture, and ceramics. He holds a B.F.A. in sculpture from Santa Fe University of Art and Design and an M.F.A. in Studio Arts from Syracuse University, completed in 2020. Born and raised in Miami, he currently lives and works in Cleveland, Ohio. He uses traditional mediums—oil on linen and ceramic sculpture—combined with repetition to evoke a sense of longing, remembrance, and the fragility of perception. His paintings are built around a consistent vocabulary of recurring motifs and partially legible figures that seem to hover between presence and absence. These elements emerge and dissolve across the canvas, not to tell a story, but to mirror the unstable, subjective nature of memory itself. Rather than referencing digital reproduction, Andrés’ use of repetition aligns with psychological recall—his paintings function as memory palaces, where each image becomes a spatial container for emotional and mental resonance. Franco Andrés’ sculptural assemblages are characterized by rich textures and surfaces—incorporating materials like wax, fur, feathers, soil, and charred wood—that create finishes both sumptuous and visceral. His work navigates the space between the organic and the constructed, where materials take on a life of their own and notions of authorship become fluid.

His work has been exhibited internationally, including at The Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, China; Lacuna Projects in London, the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY; the Olive Tjaden and Experimental Galleries at Cornell University; SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico; Icebox Projects in Philadelphia, PA; and Spring Break Art Fair in New York City. He was a post-graduate fellow at the Santa Fe Art Institute and presented the solo outdoor project A Situation for Open Possibilities in collaboration with the New Mexico Museum of Art during the 2016–17 season.