EDUCATION
2012 The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), BFA, Painting & Video, Chicago, IL
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Kiki—A Sky of Changing Lights, Everybody, Tucson, AZ
2021
Kiki–Una Noche maravillosa–a Monarch butterfly makes an entrance at
a nightclub…, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, IL
2020
Kiki, ADDS DONNA (NADA Chicago Open Art Fair), Chicago, IL
2018
“…to make them endure, give them space.”, BAR4000, Chicago, IL
flowers always…, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
On Love, Friendships, and Coexisting in Multi-Temporal Spaces, Efrain Lopez Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017
Early Roses Filled With Late Snow, ADDS DONNA, Chicago, IL
SELECTED TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019
Always Touches on a Flower, w Cathy Hsiao, Apparatus Projects, Chicago, IL
2016
New Works, w Michael Milano, Roots and Culture, Chicago, IL
PERFORMANCES
2024
Upcoming 10 things cosas que flow +1 ,Lit y Luz, CDMX, Mexico
2023
10 things cosas que flow +1 Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL
2022
X-poem Fragments… hay viene la Flor! Roots and Culture, Chicago, IL
Kiki poems, Roots and Culture, Chicago, IL
2021
Circles describing a body body describing a circle multi-temporal sound circles, Co-Prosperity Sphere Chicago, IL
2021
c-r-e-a-k-y, Flatland & LateCapital, Chicago, IL
2020
#epicpoem 😌, Apparatus Projects, Chicago, IL
2019
Querida, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
sough, Apparatus Projects, Chicago, IL
2018
florencio’s first hand at making room 00.06.66, BAR4000, Chicago, IL
florencio’s first hand at playing music, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017
#epicpoem, thoughts on futurity, and assorted jokes, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL
EpicPoem (the funny parts) And Assorted Jokes, Produce Model, Chicago, IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Upcoming, Good Naked Gallery, New York, NY
2023
Seasons Creep Under a Shading Tree, Elmhurst Art Museum McCormick house, Elmhurst, IL
FEEDER, Good Naked Gallery, Catskill, NY
Cake Show, Soft Times Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2022
THEM, Roots & Culture, Chicago, IL
2021
LatinXAmerican, The DePaul Art Museum (DPAM), Chicago, IL
2020
Drawings, paintings, maybe a sculpture 3, Everybody, Chicago, IL
2019
An Archive of Touch, Goldfinch, Chicago, IL
2018
Matt Morris: Splitsville smells like irises, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, NY
Winter Romance, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL
AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
2023
Ox-Bow’s Summer Residency Program, Saugatuck, MI
2022
Esteemed Artist Grant, The Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE), Chicago, IL
Ideas Beyond Formats Grant, Sonnenzimmer, Chicago, IL
2021
Breakout Artists 2021: Chicago’s Next Generation of Image Makers, NewcityArt
2020
Illinois Arts Council Individual Artist Support: Artist Project Grant, Chicago, IL
2019-20
BOLT Residency, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
2015
ACRE Artist Residency, Steuben, WI
2012
School Faculty Prize for Studio Arts, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
Talent Tuition Award, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
PUBLICATIONS
2023
Kiki–A Sky of Changing Lights…, Kiki Club Editions
2021
Kiki–Una noche maravillosa…, Kiki Club Editions
2020
Quarantine Times, Online ‘#epicpoem dancing towards futurity in times of isolation’
2014
Monsters & Dust, issue #4 Pink/Punk
2012
The Landline, issue #2
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023
Q & A with Publisher Artist of Kiki: A Sky of Changing Lights, Flor Flores, SONNENGRAM NO.125,
2022
Complicating the Narrative: A Review of Them at Roots & Culture, NewcityArt,
2021
A Review of LatinXAmerican at the DePaul Art Museum, NewcityArt,
Breakout Artists 2021: Chicago’s Next Generation of Image Makers”, NewcityArt,
ARCHIVES + FUTURES, Podcast
2020
A review of Kiki @ Adds Donna by Lori Waxman
ArtMaze Magazine, Issue 20
Lit y Luz, Follow My Eyes / Sigue mis ojos
2019
Sixty Inches From Center, Alejandro Jiménez-Flores: Always Touches on a Flower
New American Paintings, Issue MIDWEST #137
2018
Chicago Artist Writers, Alejandro Jiménez-Flores “… for them to endure, give them
Newcity Art, Keeping Warm While Winter Weathers On: A Review of Winter Romance at Andrew Rafacz Gallery
2017
Newcity Art, Newcity’s Top 5 of Everything 2017: Art
ArtViewer, Alejandro Jimenez-Flores at ADDS DONNA
Newcity Art, Still Lifes for the Touchscreen Age A Review of Alejandro
2013
Newcity Art, Top 5 New Art Venues that Opened in 2013
Newcity Art, Review: Guyth/Dos Perros Projects
Chicago Magazine, “Chicago’s Art Scene is Booming Right Now”
Chicago Artist Writers, “Who u See? @ Dos Perros Projects
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2013 – 2014
Dos Perros Projects, Co-Director, Chicago, IL
2012 – 2014
ADDS DONNA GALLERY, Co-Curator, Chicago, IL
SELECTED CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2014
Baudy, ADDS DONNA GALLERY, Co-Curator
Matthew Kayhoe Brett: Earth Angle, Dos Perros Projects
2013
Surfin’, ADDS DONNA GALLERY, Co-Curator
Jaakko Pallasvuo: Allegra Geller, Dos Perros Projects
Guyth, Dos Perros Projects,
Who u See?, Dos Perros Projects
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2022-Present CAPE Community Adult Art Class with TCEP, Chicago, IL
2021-Present CAPE Afterschool Art Program at Telpochcalli School, Chicago, IL
2021- 2022 CAPE Summer Art Program at West Chicago, West Chicago, IL