Carlos Franco was born in 1951 in Madrid.

He played an important role in the birth of the movement known as The New Madrid Figuration and has taken part in numerous collective and individual shows, including Arte español de los años 80 y 90, in the collections of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2001, Carlos Franco, Marlborough Madrid, 2005, and Carlos Franco. La obra gráfica, MNCARS, Silos Monastery, 2007.

Carlos Franco began to exhibit his work individually in Pamplona in the nineteen seventies (Sala Doncel, 1971) and right afterward at the Amadis Gallery in Madrid, a city in which he has been continuously present. At that time, a group of young artists was formed in the Spanish capital representing Madrid’s figurative art of the seventies. They confronted the informalism represented by the El Paso group, which had disappeared in the sixties.