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Francisco Zhan ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Home

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Visual artist based in London (b. Portugal)

zhanfrancisco@hotmail.com

@francisco.zhan

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,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Previous 2026   ⟶ Drawings   LALAIL, London Group show 2025   ⟶ Illuminations   SET, London Group show 2025   ⟶ Festus   Hangar Gallery, London Group show 2024   ⟶ Tunnel Lore   The Residence Gallery, London CJ Calderwood and Francisco Zhan 2024   ⟶ Making Sh*t Happen   Chisenhale Dance Space  x  Ugly Duck, London 2022   ⟶ Who are you wearing? (Premiere)   Kupfer, London Group show 2021   ⟶ Your journey to hell is on #me   London Arts Board Public poster , 2019   ⟶ The Time I Thought that the Devil Actually Wore Prada   SET, London Solo show ,,,, 2018   ⟶ Inside Out   AlternativeTV, London Group show ,,, 2017   ⟶ Still Life on Fire (Natura Morta on Fire) Casapiena, Petralia Soprana, Sicily Solo show , 2016   ⟶ FUCK MEN   The artist's garden, London Goldsmiths degree show 2015   ⟶ Double Sided Spoon   Goldsmiths University, London   Group show , , 2015   ⟶ Should I stay or / Should I go   Back Lane West, Redruth, Cornwall Group show ,, 2015  ⟶ SHIFT III   Hilly Fields Park, London Group show , 2015   ⟶ The Unkempt Wenches of the Wilderness   Goldsmiths University, London Group show ,

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,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Residencies and awards

	2025   Royal College of Art  RCA President and Vice-Chancellor's UK Scholarship
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	2025   Royal College of Art  RCA UK Cost of Living Scholarship
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	2024   Grand Plan Fund  Project grant
	2017   Casapiena Microcentro per le Arti  Petralia Soprana, Sicily
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	2015   Sanbao Ceramics Institute  Jingdezhen, China
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	. 2015   Studio 70 Summer Residency Commune Thing   San Marcello Pistoiese, Italy
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	. 2014   Studio 70 Summer Residency Commune Thing   Albinia, Italy
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	2013   British Art Medal Society   Student Medal Project nomination

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 2022    ⟶ Vibrancies - Frantz Lamothe   Frantz Lamothe

 2021    ⟶ Looking for the Devil   STILL LIFE  

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,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Education

2025-2027   MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art, London  

2013-2016   BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths University, London  

2012-2013   BA Fine Art (year 1), Falmouth University 

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