Angeles Salinas

Angeles Salinas was born in Mexico City in 1972. She was trained at an early age by various artists, including the famous Mexican aquarellist Alfredo Güati Rojo. These teachings served as a foundation for what has become a passion and a professional path. 

Angeles is an MFA candidate from UTSA for Spring 2024. She holds two bachelor’s degrees; she graduated Summa Cum Laude in Fine Arts at UTSA in 2020. Previously she graduated with honors as a Graphic Designer from the Universidad Iberoamericana in 1996. 

In 2015, Angeles moved to San Antonio to pursue a BFA at UTSA.. Her dual roles as an artist and single parent have been quite a challenge. She has been awarded several times for educational excellence with the James C. Elmore II Memorial Scholarship (2016), the President’s List (2017-2020), The Academy of Undergraduate Research Associates (2019), and the Wai Ching Lam Art Prize (2019). She has also participated in multiple group exhibits in Texas, including the 10th Annual Texas Juried Exhibition 2023 at Artspace111, Fort Worth, TX,  where she was awarded with an Honorable Mention, the Emerging Latin artists 26: Histories of Transformation / Historias de Transformación, at the Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, TX., and the 35th Annual Juried Student Exhibition, juried by Bill Fitz Gibbons, from the Department of Art and Art History at UTSA, where she earned the Best in Show award, among multiple other exhibitions.

Angeles’s long-term goal is to become part of an artists’ collective that bridges the respective art communities of Texas and Mexico. She would like to help women of all ages feel empowered with her work. She considers that there are still not enough women artists in the art world, and she would like to contribute to their number with her work.