Salvador Jiménez-Flores (b. 1985, Jalisco, México) is an interdisciplinary artist currently residing in Chicago, IL, USA. His 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 Artist 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 in renowned institutions such as the National Museum of Mexican Art (Chicago, IL), Grand Rapids Art Museum (MI), Museum of Glass (Tacoma, WA), Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha, NE), Grounds For Sculpture (Hamilton, NJ), Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento, CA), and DePaul Art Museum (Chicago, IL), as well as The Print Center (Philadelphia, PA).
Jiménez-Flores has served as Artist-In-Residence at institutions such as 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, 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 prominent publications such as Ceramics Monthly, Newcityart, American Craft Magazine, Chicago Sun-Times, and others. 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 currently an Associate Professor in 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 is an organizing member of the Instituto Gráfico de Chicago, an activist art group inspired by Mexico’s Taller de Gráfica Popular.
