Francisco Donoso

Francisco Donoso is the Administrative Specialist at the Center for the Advancement of Human Rights at FSU and a transnational artist, curator, and educator. Originally from Ecuador and a recipient of DACA since 2012, his personal experience with migration informs both his administrative work and artistic practice.

Donoso received his BFA from Purchase College and has participated in artist residencies at Wave Hill as a Van Lier Fellow, Stony Brook University, and The Bronx Museum’s AIM program, among others. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States, including at El Museo del Barrio, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, NADA House, and SPRING/BREAK LA. He is a recipient of an Artist Corps Grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a Cultural Solidarity Fund Grant. Donoso is the founder of Portal Press, and his artist books and zines are represented by Booklyn.

Working across painting, printmaking, drawing, collage, bookmaking, and weaving, Donoso’s multidisciplinary practice explores the psychic dimensions of migration. Using personal archives—including photographs, immigration documents, identification cards, and poetry—as source material, his work navigates the emotional and spiritual terrain of undocumented life.

His work is held in the collections of the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University Libraries, Tufts University, Princeton University, the Capital One Collection, and the Memorial Sloan Kettering Collection, among others. His work and projects have been widely written about in publications including Art & Object, Hyperallergic, Impulse Magazine, Intervenxions, and The Financial Times.

Alongside his artistic practice, Donoso has built a career in higher education administration, program management, and community-centered cultural work. Prior to joining the Center for the Advancement of Human Rights, he worked at the Parsons Scholars Program at Parsons School of Design at The New School in New York City, where he held several roles—from teaching artist to Interim Director—overseeing complex administrative systems, supporting faculty and students, and managing programs, staff, and events. Fluent in English and Spanish and currently studying French, Donoso brings a bilingual, transnational perspective to his work supporting immigrant and human rights initiatives. Across his work as an administrator, educator, and artist, he remains deeply committed to building structures of support, documentation, and storytelling that affirm the humanity of migrant communities.