Francisco echo Eraso is an interdisciplinary craft artist, educator and access worker. He uses languages of the vernacular, domestic, and folkloric through textiles and ceramics as well as minimalist sculpture, coding, found object installation, and sound art to engage in a hauntological hermeneutics of family, revolution, and religion.
Francisco echo Eraso is an MFA candidate at Rutgers, University. He received his BA/BFA from Parsons, The New School in 2018 Visual Studies and Fine Arts. In 2024, Eraso received the Wynn Newhouse Award. In 2023 he received the Kennedy Center LEAD award and served as a Call to Action Speaker for Art-Reach Conference on Arts, Culture, and Disability. He has been an artist-in-residence at Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts SHIFT residency for arts workers, FABSCRAP, Textile Arts Center, 77Art and Art Beyond Sight’s Art and Disability Residency. He has exhibited at Mason Gross Galleries, Tempest Gallery, The Shed, EFA Project Space, Westbeth Gallery, Chashama Space Gallery, Ford Foundation Gallery, Amos Eno Gallery, Flux Factory and Sheila C. Johnson Gallery in New York, Mead Museum and A.P.E. Gallery in Massachusetts, The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts in Cincinnati, Museo Antonini in Peru, among others. He has been published by Art in America and NYU Press. Eraso currently works as an accessibility consultant, independent curator, and part-time lecturer at Rutgers University.