​​Becky Franco was born in Havana, Cuba, but had to leave as a young child. Art provided her with an avenue to express herself, a means to acclimate to the cultural changes she would experience in the United States. Franco graduated with a Fine Arts degree in Painting with Honors from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and later attained a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from Queens College, New York. Living in New York in the 70s, she was very much influenced by the Photo Realist movement. She became the first female billboard artist to join the Sign and Pictorial Display Union and worked for the largest outdoor advertising company in the world at the time, Foster and Kleiser. Franco then painted large and real for fifteen years, enjoying the scale and the popular subject matter of our culture delivered to the public in the form of gigantic billboard bulletins. The content of Franco’s paintings grapple with issues of consumerism and status, with an emphasis on aesthetic beauty. Franco’s main goals at this time are to create good paintings and exhibit her work.