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

He is a member of the Color Network, an organization that promotes the advancement of people of color in the ceramic arts and helps artists develop, network, and create dialogue while providing a database site, resources, and mentorship. He is also a member of the Instituto Gráfico de Chicago, an organization inspired by the sociopolitical art of México’s Taller de Gráfica Popular (People’s Print Workshop), using art as a platform to inform and generate community discourse about urgent social issues.

He has presented his work at the National Museum of Mexican Art, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, and Museum of Arts and Design in New York, among others. He has served as artist in residence for the city of Boston; the Ceramics Program, Office of the Arts at Harvard; and Kohler Arts Industry in Sheboygan, WI. He is a recipient of grants from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the New England Foundation for the Arts, and ThreeWalls. Jiménez-Flores is an assistant professor in Ceramics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.