Francesco Pedraglio (Italy, 1981) is an artist, writer, editor and educator living in Mexico City. He is interested in storytelling as a tool for decoding intimate encounters with mundane and historically complex situations. He looks at how the process of narrating and staging — oneself or a situation — influences the relationship between teller and listener, making visible the fantasies and fictions that constitute our reality.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Viaje a la Luna, CCA Wattis, San Francisco; Otrxs Mundxs, Museo Tamayo, CDMX; The Opposite of Books, Museo Jumex, CDMX (2023); Stanze viste dall’alto, Norma Mangione Gallery (2023); Casas sin muros, Guadalajara 90210 (2023); Breve historia del contar y ser contado, Instituto Italiano de Cultura, CDMX (2022); Cinque scene per uno sfondo, MACTE Termoli (2021); Artists’ Film International, GAMEC Bergamo (IT) / Whitechapel Gallery London (Screening, 2020)

Recent group exhibitions include: El aliento de los materiales, Guadalajara 90210 (2023); Upward Panic, Galeria OMR, Mexico City (2022); Almond Shaped Eyes for Circles and Dots, Galerie Nordenhacke, Mexico City (2022); The Brick Burner, Travesia Cuatro, Guadalajara (2021); Paris International, Paris (2020).

He has performed, amongst others, at Museo Jumex (MX), Instituto Svizzero (IT), Museo de Zapopan (Guadalajara, MX), Modern Art Oxford (UK), Palais de Tokyo (FR), Hayward Gallery (UK), Kunsthalle Basel (CH).

In 2021, he published a collection of 50 poems, scripts, and short stories titled Battles, VOL I (Book Works, London). In 2018 he published a collection of performance scripts titled Spoken Sculptures (Juan de la Cosa, Mexico). His first novel A man in a room spray painting a fly (or at least trying to) was published by Book Works (London) in the summer of 2014. The Object Lessons, a novella made in collaboration with Nina Beier and Marie Lund, was published by Mousse (Milan) in 2012. 

Pedraglio runs the publishing project Juan de la Cosa.