ABOUT LIZ
Photo by Derek Blidy
Liz Flores is a painter and muralist based in Chicago.
Her work studies the human condition, female form and how movement and shape can be used as a mode of visual storytelling. She explores themes around womanhood, belonging and inner life.
"Painting has always been my way of self-understanding and for viewers, it’s my hope that my work can spark self-reflection in their own life."
Her mural work can be found throughout the Chicagoland Area and New York City. In addition to working with private and commercial clients like Target and Jack Daniels, she has shared her story on the TEDx stage and helped bring an interactive art installation titled ‘The World We Want’ to Chicago's Michigan Avenue.
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
B.A. 2012, Illinois State University, Entrepreneurship Major
MURALS
2021
Target, Chicago, IL
Lysol x AdCouncil "It's Up To You" campaign, Chicago, IL
Home Team Pizza and Ice Cream, Chicago, IL
Femdot x PlayTogether, Chicago, IL
2020
The Chicago Bears, Chicago, IL
Soho House, Chicago, IL
2019
Sephora Water Tower Place, Chicago, IL
Hawthorn Mall, Vernon Hills, IL
Lululemon Lincoln Park, Chicago, IL
Berwyn Public Arts Initiative Art on Track, Berwyn, IL
Alma, Brooklyn, NY
Google Fulton Market Office, Chicago, IL
EXHIBITIONS
2021
Holiday Show, Vertical Project Space, Chicago IL
Atomic Number 13, Vertical Gallery, Chicago, IL
Double Speak, Vertical Project Space, Chicago, IL
Beyond The Streets on Paper, Southampton Arts Center, Southampton , NY
In Between, All Star Press Gallery, Chicago IL (solo)
It Was All A Dream, Vertical Gallery, Chicago, IL
#INK Show, Vertical Project Space, Chicago, IL
2020
Art is Essential Group Show, Chicago Truborn Gallery, Chicago, IL
7 Year Anniversary Show, Vertical Gallery, Chicago, IL
Comfortably Bananas Show, Vault Gallery, Chicago, IL
2019
6 Year Anniversary Show, Chicago Truborn Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018
Here To Be, Lululemon, Chicago, IL
2017
ArtPrize Nine, The Light Gallery + Studio, Grand Rapids, MI
Urbs in Horto, galerie F, Chicago, IL
2016
Tamale Hut Cafe, November 2016, North Riverside, IL
Jupiter Outpost, Chicago, IL
Women are the Water of the Revolution, Galleryna 19, Chicago, IL
RAW: Futures Emerging Artists, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
2014
For the Brown Kids, Blue 1871, Chicago, IL
PROJECTS
2021
18th Street Distillery label design
Winsome collaboration
Chicago Bulls collaboration (March box) for Women's History Month
2020
Femdot x PlayTogether collaboration
Dark Matter Coffee
Jack Daniel's International Women's Day
2019
Salon Appetit Gallery Dinner Series
2017
100 Days of Simple Lines
2015
100 Portraits of a Train Conductor – a project inspired by #the100dayproject on Instagram where I drew 100 portraits of my train conductor 100 different ways.
2014
The World We Want – a global mural project brought to Chicago’s Michigan Avenue in collaboration with artist Amber Rae.
SELECTED COMMISSIONS
2019
Lululemon Southport Store, Chicago, IL.
2016
PepsiCo, New York, NY.
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
2018
The Jennings Hotel Art Residency, Joseph OR
MEDIA
NBA All-Star 2020 Equality Lounge Panel: Creativity as a tool for collaboration and change, February 2020
We Never Met Podcast, February 2020
Selva Negra: Womanism 1.5, February 2020
Vital Proteins: How I'm Raising the Bar, January 2020
John Carrol University visiting speaker on entrepreneurship, November 2019
Chicago Creative Mornings Speaker: Symmetry, February 2019
Chicago Creatives: From Corporate to Canvas: How Liz Flores Conveys the Human Condition, December 2018
Creating Espacios Podcast: Interviews with self-made Latinas, October 2018
Style and Forks: Spotlight on artist Liz Flores, September 2018
The Glossary: Artist Profile: Liz Flores - Chicago, June 2018
Voyage Chicago: Meet Liz Flores of Liz Flores Art in Uptown, April 2018
TEDxNormal: Made For More
Thirty5Eleven: Artists of Social Media, February 2018
Poswolsky, Adam: “The Quarter Life Breakthrough,” October 2016
Idea Lemon Podcast: “What is This Whole Creativity Thing Anyway?” October 2015
ABC 7 Chicago News, January 2015
Contact: elizabethfloresart@gmail.com