Salvador Jiménez-Flores

Salvador Jiménez-Flores is an interdisciplinary artist born and raised in Jalisco, México. He explores the politics of identity and the state of double consciousness. Jiménez-Flores addresses issues of colonization, migration, “the other,” and futurism by producing a mixture of socially conscious installation, public, and studio-based art. His work spans from community-based work, drawing, ceramics, prints, and mixed media sculpture.

Jiménez-Flores has received the 2021 United States Artist Fellowship, Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grants, The New England Foundation for the Arts and Threewalls’ RaD Lab+Outside the Walls Fellowship. He has received public sculpture commissions by The Richard Hunt Award and Artprize. He has lectured and exhibited extensively at venues including National Museum of Mexican Art, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Museum of Glass, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Grounds For Sculpture and Museum of Art and Design, Crocker Museum, DePaul Art Museum, amongst others. He served as Artist-In-Residence for the city of Boston, Harvard Ceramics Program, Office of the Arts at Harvard University, Kohler Arts Industry, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Museum of Glass and Chasen Thajni: El límite de lo propio in Puebla, México. This Summer Jimenez-Flores will be an Artistist-In-Residence at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans. He is an Assistant Professor in ceramics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Jiménez-Flores is a former organizing member of The Color Network, an organization that promotes the advancement of people of color in the ceramic arts and assists artists develop, network, and create dialogue while maintaining a place for a database, resources, and mentorship. He is also an organizing member of the Instituto Gráfico de Chicago, an organization inspired by the socio-political art of Mexico’s Taller de Gráfica Popular (The People’s Print Workshop) and uses art as a platform to inform and generate community discourse about urgent social issues.

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