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Frances Valesco is an American muralist and printmaker, based in Los Angeles. She has exhibited her works internationally in museums, galleries, and cultural centers. Valesco has also appeared nationally on panels focused on printmaking and community art, and has written pieces on technology and the art making experience.

Early life and education
Valesco was born and raised in Los Angeles. She earned her BA from UCLA, and her MA from California State University. Valesco has previously acknowledged that she wanted to pursue an artistic career from a young age, when she would construct paper dolls from women's fashion ads published in the Los Angeles Times: "I would trace around the body, cut out the shapes, and make various outfits for them, complete with paper tabs to wrap around the back of the figure. I learned early you could create just about anything with any image."

Career
Valesco has taught atCity College of San Francisco, San Francisco State University, and UC Berkeley.Her print work has been featured in solo exhibitions at several institutions, including the McAllen International Museum (McAllen, Texas), the Galeria Nacional (San José, Costa Rica), the City College of San Francisco, and the Live Worms Gallery (San Francisco). Valesco has completed artist residencies at centers such as the ArtPrint Residence in Barcelona, the Gualan Printmaking Base in China, the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland, and the Nes Artist Residency, in Skagaströnd, Iceland. Her work is included in collections around the world, including the Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco, the Library of Congress, Washington DC, the New York Public Library, the Guanlan Printmaking Museum, Guanlan, China, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.