Francisco Gallardo is a member of FRAUD, together with Audrey Samson: a duo of critical art practitioners. They are media and spatial artist-researchers based in London. Francisco is Spanish and Audrey comes from Canada. They studied a variety of subjects (architecture, engineering, design and media), and have held several academic positions including as lecturers in Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London (2018) and in Digital Arts at Greenwich (London, 2017) and at the University of West London (2016).  They have participated in numerous residencies including the Open Residency and Helsinki Design Residency both at Helsinki International Artist Programme (respectively in 2018, 2017), The Empire Remains Residency (Politics of Food) at the Delfina Foundation (London, 2016) and at Somerset House Studios (2017-9). FRAUD have exhibited and performed at the Venice Biennale in 2017, the Victoria and Albert Museum (2015, London), Kunsthal Aarhus (2016, Denmark) and Haus der Kulturen der Welt  (Berlin, 2011) among other venues.