Flor Flores

B. 1989, Mexico Lives & Works in Chicago, IL


Flor@Floresss.com

Represented by
Good Naked Gallery

New York, NY

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 

space” at Bar4000

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 

Jimenez-Flores at ADDS DONNA

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