Francisco González Castro, PhD
Vice Chancellor, Professor & Chair of the Art Department
About Francisco
Francisco González Castro (Santiago, Chile, 1984) Artist, researcher and writer. PhD in Arts, major in Visual Arts, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He is part of GCAS College Dublin and GCAS Latin America. He has exhibited his artistic work in numerous countries and has presented his research in various conferences, journals and books. He is the author of the book “Matar un Rey. Consideraciones para una práctica político-artística” (2023), “Fuera de lugar. Textos sobre prácticas artísticas, políticas y afectivas” (2023) and “Puntos en el Borde: crónica de un viaje por la frontera México-Estados Unidos” (Almacén Editorial, 2022), editor of the book “Otro lugar. Perspectivas sobre la empatía y sus potencias” (Editorial Milhojas, 2022) and co-author of the books “Performance Art en Chile: historias, procesos y actualidad” (Metales Pesados, 2016), “Mario Pedrosa y el CISAC: Configuraciones afectivas, artísticas y políticas” (Metales Pesados, 2019) and “El Arte como Revolución: Debates, redes y actualidad del Instituto de Arte Latinoamericano” (Metales Pesados, 2022)
Research Interests
As an artist, he has developed his work since 2005 to date with exhibitions and presentations, both individual and collective, in Chile (Santiago, Viña del Mar, Valparaíso, Concepción and Valdivia) as well as abroad (Sweden, Germany, Spain, France and the United States). In addition, he has done various projects as curator, focused on establishing relationships between artists of different generations around issues of art and society. In his works and research he approaches social and political themes around the power and reflections of the usefulness of art as an element of concrete change in society and within the contingency, positioning the concept of the political-artistic. Highlights are the projects: “In between / art y society” (2012), “In between / art and contingency” (2014) and “Layers of Disappearing: 1002 of 7000” (2016). He has also presented his research in various congresses and magazines in Chile and abroad. Recently published the book “Performance Art in Chile: histories, processes and discourses”.
