Francisco Sierra
Visual artist and musician, born 1977 in Santiago de Chile. He studied violin under the guidance of Karen Turpie at the Hooge School voor de Kunsten Utrecht (NL) and is a self-taught painter. Solo Exhibitions e.g. at Kunsthaus Aarau, Kunsthaus Langenthal, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Galeria Bacelos Madrid, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum Ludwigshafen am Rhein and Galerie Gregor Staiger in Zürich.
Group shows a.o. at Baku Biennale in Azerbaijan, SALTS Birsfelden, Galerie Bernhard Zürich, Kunstmuseum Bern and Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne
He is winner of the Kiefer Hablitzel Prize, the Swiss Art Award, Manor Kunstpreis St. Gallen, the Studio grant in London by the Landis&Gyr foundation. In 2011 he was a fellow at the Sommerakademie Zentrum Paul Klee curated by Pipilotti Rist.
Several publications, amongst them a monograph at Verlag für Moderne Kunst with texts by Christoph Vögele, Raphael Gygax, Roland Wäspe and Nadine Wietlisbach as well as a Cahier d’Artiste by ProHelvetia at Edizioni Periferia with a text by Giovanni Carmine.
His works are represented in many public and corporate collections, such as Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Kunstmuseum Bern, Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Julius Bär Art Collection, Collection Credit Suisse, Helvetia Collection and the Crown Prince Court Abu Dhabi.