Founder of international Artist Residencies based in Mexico, Peru and Italy, Francisco Guevara is a visual artist, independent scholar. His experience spans more than 20 years of international artistic projects, curating and teaching, as well as multiple collective and solo exhibitions. He specializes in Levinasian ethics applied to the design of cross- cultural artistic projects, and the analysis of historiography and performativity in contemporary art practices. As a visual artist, Guevara investigates the historical construction of the differentiation processes, embodiment, and the concept of distortion through a wide range of artistic/historical mediums, including painting, installation, and metalsmith. As of 2009, Guevara is co-founder and Co-Executive Director of Arquetopia, a non-profit foundation and transnational artist residency program promoting Development and social transformation through educational, artistic, and cultural programs.

Guevara holds a degree in Cooperation and Development in the Fields of education, science and culture from UNED/OEI/CIDEAL, and a postgraduate degree in Cultural Management and Communication from FLACSO. He studied art historiography at the University of New Mexico, focusing on race, gender, class in the writing of art history. Francisco Guevara graduated with the degree of University Expert in Management and Planning of Development Cooperation Projects in the Fields of Education, Science and Culture in 2003 from the Universidad Nacional de Estudios a Distancia (UNED) in Madrid, Spain, in coordination with the Organization of Latin American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI) and CIDEAL Foundation. Francisco Guevara started his arts management/curator career with a year of law studies at the Escuela Libre de Derecho in Mexico City (ELD) and continued with a semester of International Relations at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de Mexico (ITAM).  In 2007 he received his postgraduate degree in Cultural Management and Communication from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  In 2008 he received a Diploma from the prestigious Chef Ferrán Adrià at Universidad Camilo José Cela in Spain. In 2009 he joined the University of New Mexico to attend attende the Seminar Race, Gender, and the Historiographies of Art, and study art historiography of art and Emmanuel Levinas ethics under Dr. Kirsten Pai Bucik who remains his mentor. 

As an artist Guevara studied painting at the Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla (BUAP) and continued at the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana in Mexico City. Through the years he has studied and worked under the guidance of several artists including including Drawing and Sculpture with Mirna Manriquez, Intaglio with Teódulo Rómulo, Installation with César Martínez, Drawing with Edgar Martínez, Video with Mark Anderson. Protégé of Dolores Olmedo Patiño, he has participated in several collective exhibitions and had as well 19 solo shows.  His artistic work can be found in important private and public collections. His work includes painting, ceramics, sculpture, installation and alternative media, such as time-based work, edible installations and performance. For the last decade, through different media he has explored the relationship the spatialization of class and the question of time/space in the process of face-to-face encounters. His work and projects emphasize the role of contemporary art in economic development and as a tool for social change.  His experience covers international projects including: intangible heritage, public art, exhibitions and visual arts education.  His art practice includes researching, studing and staging connections between food, rituals of eating and the collective process of identification. Since 2016 he has focused his research again in painting specifically using indigo with its complex historical context to address questions about the reconfiguration of space through class ideology. 

He has participated in multiple collective exhibits and had nineteen solo shows, including the Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque Museum and University of New Mexico in the U.S., and the 10th Mexican Festival in Australia.  His work can be found in important private and public collections such as: Fundación Coleccion Jumex, Dolores Olmedo Museum, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Ministry of Culture of Bolivia, Salma Hayek-Pinault Collection, Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II Private Collection, Denmark, among others. His residencies and honors include THE LAND/an art site, Youkobo Art Space Japan, and the American Institute of Architects Honor Award, both New Mexico and Albuquerque.