About

Francisco's activist fueled documentation artwork has centered around issues and movements such as Chicano Human/Civil Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Our Unhoused, Farmworkers, Antiwar, Peace, Immigrant/Worker Rights, Social Justice, Mexico & Central Americas, and Environmental movements.

Francisco Joseph Dominguez was born in Sacramento, California. He is the son of Inez Martinez Chavez and Moises Fajardo Dominguez and is the youngest of seven siblings. Francisco began to work in the arts when he joined the Quetzalcoatl Aztec group in 1984.

After transferring from Sacramento City college to UC Davis he began Writing for the Third World Forum Newspaper. In his second year with the TWF he started his photography career. Dominguez studied photography with Roland Peterson at UC Davis and with Roger Vail at CSU Sacramento. In 1989 he began printmaking under the guidance of Maestro Malaquías Montoya at UC Davis. He has been an actor with Preston Arroweed's " California Inter Tribal Theatre" and has studied poetry at the Naropa Institute's "Jack Keroac School Of Disembodied Poetics".

Dominguez has taught photography at the middle school, high school and college levels. He has exhibited throughout the United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Venezuela. Dominguez resides in Sacramento,California.