Fran Siegel's drawings and installations engage location-based research that traverses landscape, culture, and materiality. Collaged tapestries seam together multiple viewpoints, patterns, time sequences, and surfaces. 

Siegel has developed and exhibited work throughout Europe and South America. As a Fulbright fellow in Brazil, she conducted research for "Lineage Through Landscape" which was included in the Getty's city-wide initiative "PST- Los Angeles/Latin America" with her 2017 solo exhibition at The UCLA Fowler Museum. In 2024 her project "In Flux" was included in the Getty's "PST- Art and Science Collide." In 2025 she was awarded a second Fulbright to Portugal. Residency fellowships inform her location-based practice and include: The Bogliasco Foundation and Siena Art Institute in Italy; La Napôule and Camargo/Bau Foundation in France; CCA Andrax, Spain; and Instituto Sacatar, Bahia, Brazil. Siegel represented the United States in the IX International Biennial of Cuenca, Ecuador and Art in Embassies commissioned a permanent work for the U.S. consulate in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Her permanent glass-tiled mural for LA Metro's La Brea/Wilshire station is slated to open in early 2026.

Siegel received a Getty Grant from the California Community Foundation, a C.O.L.A. Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship, Center for Cultural Innovation, and the OC Contemporary Collectors Grant. She earned her M.F.A. from Yale University School of Art, and B.F.A. from Tyler School of Art. As a professor in the School of Art at California State University Long Beach for two decades, Siegel taught experimental drawing. Siegel's works are in public collections at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UCSB, Long Beach Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and The Morgan Library Museum, NYC.