Skip to main contentHanes Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Salvador Jiménez-Flores
Salvador Jiménez-Flores (b. 1985, Jalisco, México) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the politics of identity, double consciousness, colonization, migration, “the other” and futurism through socially conscious installation, public and studio-based art. His practice spans community-based work, drawing, ceramics, prints and mixed-media sculpture.
Jiménez-Flores holds an MFA in Drawing from Kendall College of Art & Design (2014). He has received prestigious awards, including the 2021 United States Artists Fellowship, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, the New England Foundation for the Arts and the Threewalls’ RaD Lab + Outside the Walls Fellowship. He has been commissioned for public sculptures, including The Richard Hunt Award, ArtPrize and Grounds For Sculpture.
His work has been exhibited at renowned institutions, including the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, the Grand Rapids Art Museum in Michigan, the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska, Grounds For Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey, the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California, DePaul Art Museum in Chicago and The Print Center in Philadelphia.
Jiménez-Flores has served as an artist-in-residence at institutions including the City of Boston, Harvard Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard University, Kohler Arts/Industry, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Museum of Glass, Chasen Thajni: El límite de lo propio in Puebla, México, Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans and Corning Museum of Glass.
His work has been featured in publications including Ceramics Monthly, Newcity, American Craft Magazine and the Chicago Sun-Times. His artwork is held in collections including the National Museum of Mexican Art, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Kohler Company and Museum of Glass.
Jiménez-Flores is an associate professor of ceramics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is a former organizer of The Color Network, which supports the advancement of people of color in ceramics, and an organizing member of the Instituto Gráfico de Chicago, an activist art group inspired by Mexico’s Taller de Gráfica Popular.
Salvador Jiménez-Flores (b. 1985, Jalisco, México) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the politics of identity, double consciousness, colonization, migration, “the other” and futurism through socially conscious installation, public and studio-based art. His practice spans community-based work, drawing, ceramics, prints and mixed-media sculpture.
Jiménez-Flores holds an MFA in Drawing from Kendall College of Art & Design (2014). He has received prestigious awards, including the 2021 United States Artists Fellowship, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant, the New England Foundation for the Arts and the Threewalls’ RaD Lab + Outside the Walls Fellowship. He has been commissioned for public sculptures, including The Richard Hunt Award, ArtPrize and Grounds For Sculpture.
His work has been exhibited at renowned institutions, including the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, the Grand Rapids Art Museum in Michigan, the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska, Grounds For Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey, the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California, DePaul Art Museum in Chicago and The Print Center in Philadelphia.
Jiménez-Flores has served as an artist-in-residence at institutions including the City of Boston, Harvard Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard University, Kohler Arts/Industry, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Museum of Glass, Chasen Thajni: El límite de lo propio in Puebla, México, Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans and Corning Museum of Glass.
His work has been featured in publications including Ceramics Monthly, Newcity, American Craft Magazine and the Chicago Sun-Times. His artwork is held in collections including the National Museum of Mexican Art, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Kohler Company and Museum of Glass.
Jiménez-Flores is an associate professor of ceramics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is a former organizer of The Color Network, which supports the advancement of people of color in ceramics, and an organizing member of the Instituto Gráfico de Chicago, an activist art group inspired by Mexico’s Taller de Gráfica Popular.
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