LIZ FLORES
PAINTER & MURALIST
Liz Flores is a painter and muralist based in Chicago.
She is deeply influenced by the everyday human experience, storytelling, and the female body. Working primarily with acrylic paint on canvas, her work is a representation of the human condition through lines, shapes, and abstract figures. It’s a reaction to life, an emotion, or a memory and is driven by her interests in community, womanhood, and Latinidad. While the women in her paintings are influenced by her experiences, they remain ambiguous in face and form, giving the viewer the opportunity to see themselves.
"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. "
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CURRICULUM VITAE
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Así Es La Vida, Dorothy Circus Gallery, Rome, Italy
Esmé, Chicago, IL
Little Things, All Star Press Gallery, Chicago, IL
2023
Remedios, Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2022
Ni De Aquí, Ni De Allá, Vertical Gallery, Chicago, IL
2021
In Between, All Star Press Gallery, Chicago IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 (all upcoming)
On Paper, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York, NY
13 Year Anniversary, Vertical Gallery, Chicago
Thinkspace x Harman Projects, New York, NY
2025
Jaunt Redux, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York, NY
General Strike, Joy Machine Gallery, Chicago, IL
HIM, The Jaunt x Parkim, Seoul, South Korea
The Earth Laughs in Flowers, Capitol Modern: the Hawaii State Art Museum, HI
Embodied Abstraction: In Her Image, Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston, MA
Amuse-Bouche, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York, NY
Light Preserver, Joy Machine Gallery, Chicago, IL
Cardboard Jungle, Chicago IL
Ser y Estar, Duran Contemporain Gallery, Montreal, Canada
12 year Anniversary, Vertical Gallery, Chicago, IL
2024
Summer Group Show, Vertical Gallery, Chicago IL
10 Year Anniversary, Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Back Home Again (in Indiana), Vertical Gallery x The Wall Muse, Indianapolis, IN
A Better Tomorrow, Thinkspace, Los Angeles, CA
Potluck, Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2023
Picasso: Fifty Years Later, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
Wag Your Tail, Vertical Gallery, Chicago, IL
LUSH, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York, NY
A Decade of the Jaunt, Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Come Kiss, VSG Contemporary, Chicago, IL
Exploring The New Contemporary Movement, Thinkspace x World Wide Walls, Honolulu, HI
Launch, Vertical Gallery, Chicago, IL
Black and White, Duran Mashaal Gallery, Montreal, Canada
2022
Somebody, Hashimoto Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Bulls Fest, All Star Press Gallery, Chicago, IL
Sold Out Don’t Come, VSG Contemporary, Chicago, IL
The Voyeurs, All Star Press Gallery, Chicago, IL
9 Year Anniversary Show, Vertical Gallery, Chicago, IL
2021
Holiday Show, Vertical Project Space, Chicago IL
Atomic Number 13, Vertical Gallery, Chicago, IL
Doublespeak, Vertical Project Space, Chicago, IL
Beyond The Streets on Paper, Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY
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, 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, 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
MURALS
2026
The Chamberlain, Nashville, TN
2025
Good Chaos, Chicago, IL
Arte y Cultura Community Mural, Berwyn, IL
Thrd Coffee, Chicago, IL
FTI Consulting, Chicago, IL
Disney Springs, Orlando, FL
Warby Parker, Deerfield, IL
2024
PayPal, Chicago, IL
Arthur on Aberdeen, Chicago, IL
1000M Apartments, Chicago, IL
L7 Hotels by Lotte, Chicago, IL
Deloitte, Chicago, IL
Mintel, Chicago, IL
2023
United Airlines, Willis Tower, Chicago, IL
Milliken Flooring, Chicago, IL
2022
Lululemon Fulton Market, Chicago, IL
Jack Morton, Chicago, IL
Jose Cuervo Tequila, Chicago, IL
9to5 Seating, Merchandise Mart, Chicago IL
The Bloc, Chicago, IL
Acero Victoria Soto High School, Chicago, IL
Social Media Co. Data Center, Dekalb, IL
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
SELECTED ART FAIRS
2021
Art Miami, Duran Mashaal Gallery, Miami, FL
Art Toronto, Duran Mashaal Gallery, Toronto, Canada
SELECTED MEDIA
2024
MINHWA, Chicago IL, November 2024
2023
Apple Inc, Women in Power Art Lab, March 2023
2022
Colossal, Minimal Paintings by Artist Liz Flores Explore What It Means To Belong, December 2022
WideWalls, Liz Flores’ New Series Draws from the Exploration of Her Family’s Roots, December 2022
2020
We Never Met Podcast, with Sam Kirkegaard, “Liz Flores: Artist, Painter, and Muralist,” Ep. 56 February 2020
Selva Negra, Womanism 1.5: Liz Flores, February 2020
Vital Proteins: How I'm Raising the Bar: Muralist Liz Flores on Leaving Her Corporate Job to Pursue her Passion January 2020
2019
John Carrol University visiting speaker, November 2019
Chicago Creative Mornings Speaker: Symmetry, February 2019
2018
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
2016
TEDxNormal, Liz Flores: You Are Made For More, 2016
ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES
2022
The Jaunt, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
2018
The Jennings Hotel, Joseph, OR
EDUCATION
B.A. 2012, Illinois State University, Entrepreneurship