Frank Frances (b.1983, Columbia, SC) is a NYC-based artist whose work challenges theeveryday perceptions of memories and prejudice, with close studies of the materiality and dynamism of photography and painting.

Pulling from his roots in South Carolina, Frank makes work that uses elements from the slave trade like cotton, food, and stereotypes of the American South that in many ways have impactedthe black community. The use of black-face and other depictions of blackness, confederate/contemporary symbolism, foods including watermelon, kool-aid, and cotton are explored in photography/paintings. Exploring items that have an eraser in identity while creating new ways to visualize the beauty in things that inherently have trauma associated with slavery and black oppression.Frank’s creative process is the research of how there can be a constant vivid exploration of the range of blackness and artistic imagination experiences associated with it.

Frances has exhibited in solo and group presentations domestically and internationally at TheStudio Museum of Harlem, Sasha Wolf Gallery, Glasshouse, Carriage Trade, and Werkstadt Graz amongst others. Reviews and features of his work have appeared in publications such asArchitectural Digest, Elle Decor, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vice, NPR, ArtInfo,Bomblog, and Bloomberg BusinessWeek.

Frances work is part of numerous public collections, including those of The Museum of Modern

Art; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Jewish Museum, New York. He received a BFA and MFA from the School of Visual Arts.

His first book Remember The South is published by Monolith Editions.