Belinda Flores-Shinshillas is a visual artist born in Mexico City and a resident of New Orleans. She received a Bachelor of Arts with a concentration in Printmaking and Painting from Southeastern Louisiana University and a Master of Arts from Louisiana State University. In her native country, she studied at the atelier of muralist professor Manuel Guillen y Campos Huici in the disciplines of human figure drawing and oil/acrylic techniques of the Mexican School of Painting.
Belinda has been recognized by the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation with the 2025 Champion of Culture Award, and the Guillermo De Bango Excellence in the Arts Award 2024 by the Cervantes Hispanic American Arts Foundation. She received the prestigious Ohtli Award (Reconocimiento Ohtli) in 2024 from the Government of Mexico. She was recognized as one of the 2023 Top Female Achievers by the Renaissance Publishing Foundation in New Orleans, LA. and received an appointment to the El Paso Museum of Art Advisory Board in 2003.
Her artwork has been of a contemporary nature, using the figure and representational elements as an important component in the visual narrative, merging it with abstract concepts and techniques as a way to move through space. All the elements become a metaphoric voice, capturing the balance between intimacy and distance. Her drawings, prints, and paintings are an extension of her identity and culture, using form and color as an idea, an attitude, and an interpretation that questions the permanence of the world surrounding her.
She is interested in the intricate connection between the past, present, and future and how they transform our lives. She has started working on a project about her deep connections with her native land and the importance of her culture and traditions in her personal and artistic journey.
Belinda has exhibited her work in Mexico City; El Paso, Texas; Santa Fe, Taos, and Las Cruces in New Mexico; New Haven in Connecticut; North and South Carolina; Pomona and San Francisco in California; and Hammond, Covington, and New Orleans in Louisiana.
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