Francesco Orazzini is a visual artist born in Livorno, Italy (1988), currently based in Mexico City. His practice spans painting and expanded visual media, combining symbolic imagery with social and psychological narratives.
He studied a scientific baccalaureate with artistic experimentation before earning a degree in Visual Arts from the European Institute of Design (IED) in Rome, graduating with honors in 2010. He has lived and worked as an artist in Rome, New York City and Mexico City.
Orazzini has presented solo exhibitions in institutional and independent spaces, including the Italian Embassy, and has participated in collective exhibitions, biennials and festivals across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East and Australia.
His work has been published in monographs and featured in books and catalogues, including the Pictoline Illustration Biennial (Mexico) and Premio Illustri (Italy), and has extended into cross-disciplinary collaborations across theatre, music and design.
His video animations have been presented in venues including the Triennale di Milano, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (Spazio Factory) and the Australian Parliament, with narrated presentations by internationally recognized figures.
In Mexico, he has produced large-scale mural works for institutions including the United Nations, the Government of Mexico City and Santander Bank, and has taught painting, illustration and project design at the Academia de San Carlos and the Faculty of Arts and Design (UNAM).
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 – Il Corpo Immagina, Italian Cultural Institute, Mexico City
2019 – Los Ensueños, FARO de Oriente, Mexico City
2019 – La Crónica Negra, Galería José María Velasco, Mexico City
2018 – La Crónica Negra, ArtSpace México, Mexico City
2018 – Retrospective, Siniestro & Co., Mexico City
2017 – Vislumbramento, Galería Arca MX & MUTEM Museum, Mexico City
2016 – Notas desde la Esencia, Rojo Bermelo Gallery, Mexico City
2016 – Carne Viciosa, ArtSpace México, Mexico City
2010 – Vuoture, SguardoContemporaneo, RomeSELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
– International Digital Design, National Taipei University of Technology (Best Award) – Taiwan
– International Digital Design, SunChon National University- Korea
– Trust Utopia,CHEAP! Street Poster Art – Bologna
– En las Montañas Crecen Figuras, Pago en Especie, Museo de la Cancillería – Mexico City
– Hacia Dónde Va el Mundo, Academia de San Carlos – Mexico City
2024
– Efímera, Colectivo Tlato/Locations & Venues – Mexico City
2023
– Hasta el Fin, Aguafuerte – Mexico City
– Friends of Madness, GAMA – Mexico City
– Hope, Fondazione Campana dei Caduti – Rovereto, Italy
2022
– I Made a Place for Me, Skylab Gallery – Columbus, Ohio, USA
– On Fire, CHEAP! Street Poster Art – Bologna, Italy
– Salone Internazionale dell’Umorismo, Ex Chiesa Anglicana – Bordighera, Italy
– MAMX, NewJorg Gallery – Kalmthout, Belgium
– Umbral 22, Aguafuerte Gallery – Mexico City
2021
– CartAE, InCinque Open Art – Rome, Italy
– Retorno al Miktlán, Instituto Politécnico Nacional – Mexico City
2020
– Reclaim, CHEAP! Street Poster Art Festival – Bologna, Italy
2019
– Exuperanti Forma, Palazzo Velli – Rome
– Identidades Ilustradas, Palacio de Minería – Mexico City
– 10th Imagenpalabra Salon, Faculty of Arts and Design – Bogotá, Colombia
– Ilustración y Resistencia, Casa Talavera & Virtual Museum of Illustration – Mexico City
– Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolors, Mall Galleries – London
– Eros & Thanatos, Palazzo Velli – Rome
– La RAB, Exit Gallery – Mexico City
2018
– Modern Panic IX, Archive Gallery / The Rose Lipman Building – London
– Premio Illustri, Gallerie d’Italia – Milan
– ContemporaneaMenti, Fondazione L’Arsenale – Iseo, Italy
– Diálogos Modernos y Contemporáneos, Pablo Goebel – Mexico City
– Salón Abierto de Pintura, Ladrón Galería– Mexico City
– Nekros Opsis, Geology Museum UNAM – Mexico City
– En el Ombligo de la Luna, Instituto Politécnico Nacional – Mexico City
– Abierto Mexicano de Diseño, Palacio Postal – Mexico City
– Miradas Cruzadas, IBBY Bookstore – Mexico City
– Lo Político en el Arte, Aguafuerte Gallery – Mexico City
– Indoor Project, Óvalo Galería – Mexico City
– Foto Museo Cuatro Caminos – Feria del Millón / Arte Diez, Mexico City
– Bienal de Ilustración, Centro de Cultura Digital – Mexico City
– Otherness, University of Leipzig – Leipzig, Germany
2017
– Demiurgo, ArtSpace México – Mexico City
– Rodin Royal Talens (Honorable Mention), Museo Soumaya – Mexico City
2016
– Migration: The Exodus through Mexico, Aguafuerte Gallery – Mexico City
2015
– Mextropoli Festival, La Nana Creativa – Mexico City
2014
– Death with a Smile, MUMEDI – Mexican Museum of Design – Mexico City
2013
– PULSE New York – Velodyne Acoustic, New York City
– Crack! Fumetti Dirompenti, Forte Prenestino – Rome
2012
– First Contact, Gallery New World Stage – New York City
2011
– Animation Screening, LES Film Festival – New York City
– Invisible Violence, Festarte Video Festival – Teatro delle Muse – Ancona, Italy
– Invisible Violence, Festarte Video Festival – Triennale Museum – Milan
2010
– Invisible Violence, Video Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art (Spazio Factory) – Rome
– Crack! Fumetti Dirompenti, Forte Prenestino – Rome
– My Detour – Moleskine & Feltrinelli, Libreria Feltrinelli, Largo Torre Argentina – Rome
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Museum, Mexico – Museo de la Cancilleria
PUBLIC MURAL ART
2018 UN – Central de Abasto (SDG Program, Mexico City)
2019 Tlatelolco – Government Housing Rehabilitation Program, Mexico
2024 Bank Santander – Centenario Branch / Plaza de los Coyotes, Coyoacan México City
2024 Teotitlan de Flores Magon Oaxaca – Mural Festival by Axolotl Collective and Government of Oaxaca
2024 Cuicatlan Oaxaca – Mural Festival by Axolotl Collective and Government of Oaxaca
2025 México City – Collective Mural Project by Secretary of Culture of México City
TEACHING
UNAM — Faculty of Arts and Design
Academia de San Carlos (UNAM)
UNAM FES AcatlánEDUCATION
2001–2007: Scientific High School with Artistic Orientation, Liceo F. Cecioni, Livorno, Italy
2007–2010: European Institute of Design (IED), Rome – Honors degree Visual Arts, Illustration and Animation