Francisco José Guevara Robles

Guevara studied Law at the Escuela Libre de Derecho, International Relations at ITAM, and Art at BUAP and the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana. Early in his career, he was mentored and supported by the renowned collector Dolores Olmedo Patiño. He later completed postgraduate studies in Development Cooperation Project Management (UNED, OEI, and CIDEAL), Cultural Management and Communication (FLACSO Argentina), and earned the Ferrán Adrià Chair diploma from Universidad Camilo José Cela. He is currently pursuing studies in Art Historiography at the University of New Mexico under the mentorship of Dr. Kirsten Pai Buick.

In 2026, Guevara celebrates twenty-five years of artistic practice with the retrospective "Revolution in the Fictions of the Tropics", hosted by BUAP at the Carolino. Centro Universitario de la Cultura y los Saberes, housed in the historic Edificio Carolino, the former Jesuit College of the Holy Spirit in downtown Puebla. Bringing together more than 250 works from across his career, the exhibition revisits the histories, materials, and systems of representation through which the Tropics have been imagined and constructed, tracing their relationship to colonialism, empire, and contemporary visual culture.

Guevara has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions internationally. Recent projects include "Omens of Empire", "Treasures of Adverse Possession", "Ethos of Transfiguration", and "De lo Bello a lo Invisible" at the Museo José Luis Bello y González. These exhibitions have brought renewed attention to his engagement with museums and permanent collections as sites for examining coloniality, color, material culture, and the ethics of extraction. His work is held in major public and private collections, including Museo Jumex, Museo Dolores Olmedo Patiño in Mexico City, the Salma Hayek–Pinault Collection, and the Margrethe II Collection in Denmark.