Francisco Muñoz (Tlaxcala, Mexico, 1986) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes sculpture, drawing, collage, painting, textiles, and installations. He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado, La Esmeralda, in Mexico City, and later at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in Lyon, as part of an artistic fellowship program. His work is placed in the questioning and analysis of national identities, especially in aesthetic terms. The artist is originally from Tlaxcala, a crucial place in the imaginary produced by the official history of Mexico regarding the period of the Conquest. In that sense, Muñoz approaches pre-Columbian images and symbols as a part of present-day speeches that are necessary to question and explore.

One of the main axes of his work is the relationship that objects have with different contexts and how their meanings can be reordered through material modifications, conceptual associations, or painting interventions. The possibilities represented by the adaptation of objects to different environments are key to Muñoz’s practice: the identity of each piece is based on multiplicity, on the encounter between its “original” meanings and those it assimilates, both in the process of artistic work and at the point of encounter with its viewers. This syncretism directly connects the conceptual with the material, a line on which his work unfolds. Muñoz's work can be found in the Alain Servais Collection (Belgium) and in various private collections in Mexico.

He currently lives and works in Mexico City.

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The way in which we relate to a work of art or to the representation of a symbol depends, to a great extent, on how it is displayed. Ideas of the sacred or the national, for example, arise depending on particular historical moments and contexts. The value of images or objects linked to these ideas is not intrinsic, rather, it is constructed on the basis of a collectivity’s common ground. There is a theatricality with which some of the displays at the National Museum of Anthropology are curated, for example, combining original pre-Hispanic pieces with reproductions (for conservation reasons). This mise en scène seeks to recreate sacred environments or rituals of the past. This is of particular interest to Muñoz when, through his practice, he interrogates about the social and ritual function of objects.