Bio
Renato França (Rio de Janeiro, 1991) is a Brazilian-Spanish visual artist and photographer based in Barcelona.
His practice investigates perception and the processes through which we construct meaning from what we see. Working at the intersection of body, image and experience, his work explores the limits of vision, perceptual instability, and the distance between what we see and what we believe we recognise.
He is currently developing Afterlight, a body of work rooted in his experience of keratoconus, using the instability of vision as a starting point to question the idea of perception as something fixed and reliable. Through photography, he investigates the interval between seeing and recognising, and the ways in which the body completes, interprets and negotiates what cannot be perceived with certainty.
He lives and works in Barcelona.
info@renatofranca.com
CV
Exhibitions
2026 — Afterlight, group exhibition, El Observatorio, Nau Bostik, Barcelona, Spain.
Education
2025–2026 — Documentary Photography of Authorship (Fotografía Documental de Autor), El Observatorio, Barcelona.
2015-2016 — Master’s Degree in Marketing, University of Coimbra, Portugal.
2013-2014 — Postgraduate Degree in Marketing, IBMEC, Brazil.
2009-2012 — Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Gama Filho University, Brazil.
Selected Courses & Workshops
2026 — Looking and Thinking — David Jiménez, Sacra Experience, Galicia.
2026 — Visual Narrative and Photobook Making — Alex Llovet.
2026 — Image, Territory and Critical Thinking — Antonio Guerra, Art Photo BCN, Barcelona.
2025 — Lessons from Things: Photography That Reveals, Rebels — Joan Fontcuberta, Talleres Aislados.
2025 — Anti-Colonial Gazes — ContraNarrativas.
2024 — Artistic Mentorship and Project Development Program — Uiler Costa.
2024 — Photojournalism — Patilimona.
2024 — Photographic Projects — Patilimona.
2024 — Black-and-White Analog Darkroom — Patilimona.
2024 — The Eye of the Hurricane — Oleñka Carrasco, Art Photo BCN, Barcelona.
2024 — Woman Mountain, photography workshop — Ainhoa Valle.