Francisco Sierra (born 1977 in Santiago de Chile) emigrated to Switzerland in 1986. He is a trained violinist and self-taught visual artist. He is also a member of the performance collective Jetpack Bellerive and, since 2018, an artistic associate at the ETH Zurich.
Francisco Sierra's work considers the question of how contemporary
figurative painting could look. He paints the reality of things faithfully, but his works' chosen subjects rarely represent that which they may first be taken for. He is interested in the transformation of apparent clarity into something new and enigmatic. Sierra is occupied by the pitfalls of contemporary photographic reproduction and the transformative potential of painting, involving surrealistic and conceptual approaches.
