Francisco Tomsich is an artist and author born in Uruguay in 1981. He produces exhibitions, publications, works for the stage, research models and pedagogical devices since 2003, operating with different media, languages and tongues. He has co-founded and integrates many non-disciplinary associations of artists and cultural workers in South America and Europe. He participated in the 7th MERCOSUR Biennial (2009) and the 1st Montevideo Biennial (2012). His works have been exhibited and published internationally and awarded on many occasions, including the National Prize for Literature of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay (2012) and the FEFCA Scholarship for young artists from the same institution (2013). His works are characterized by the attention paid to the material conditions of production in the time and place in which they occur and the urgency to produce critical dialogues between images of the past, notions of the present and active models of the future. He lives in Istria, Slovenia.

Together with Tatiana Kocmur Franciso Tomsich is co-founder of Translacija | Traslación platform for production, exhibition and research on performance art.

Photo: Francisco Tomsich, Courtesy of the artist