Francis Almendárez is an artist, filmmaker, and educator from South Central, Los Angeles. His work takes many different forms including collaborations, performances, screenings, workshops, and exhibitions that have been presented in museum, university, arts nonprofit, artist-run, virtual, and DIY spaces both nationally and internationally. Through the merging of history, autoethnography, and cultural production, his works offer ways to navigate and reconcile with intergenerational trauma and reclaim diasporic identities. Recent presentations include screenings at Miami New Media Festival, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris and LOOKING FORWARD, London; DIY photography and filmmaking workshops in Honduras and El Salvador; public photo-murals at FotoFest, Houston; and a collaborative performance at Antenna, New Orleans. Almendárez is an Assistant Professor of Photography/Video and Studio Art at California State University San Bernardino, and previously lectured at University of Houston School of Art and Houston Community College. He received his MFA (with Distinction) from Goldsmiths, University of London, and BFA in Sculpture/New Genres from Otis College of Art and Design.
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