Francisco Moreno (b. 1986, Mexico City) is a Mexican-American artist whose work reimagines history, myth, and identity through a bold visual language that merges Old Master painting traditions with contemporary and fantastical influences. 

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Raised between Mexico and the United States, Moreno explores the complexities of cultural hybridity and belonging. His practice often incorporates references to art history, religious iconography, and Mexican symbolism, which he collides with science fiction, surreal imagery, and invented narratives. The result is a layered body of work that questions power, heritage, and the ways in which stories are told. 

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As Adam Jasienski, Associate Professor of Art History at SMU, has written: "I have long been fascinated by how Francisco Moreno’s practice interrogates that period, a 'Golden Age' of European painting. He pointedly asks: 'what enabled the supposed goldenness of that age?' and he confronts its cultural achievements with the realities of European conquest and colonialism, particularly in his native Mexico. His paintings are referentially dense in the number of nested borrowings and quotations from, and subversions of other artworks, of masterworks, that they contain." 

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Moreno earned his BFA in Painting from the University of Texas at Arlington and his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, with solo presentations at institutions and galleries across the U.S. He is the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including support from the Nasher Sculpture Center. Moreno lives and works in Dallas, Texas.