ABOUT | Pronouns: They / Them |
Whitney Salgado is a Latine digital painter and freelance illustrator. A graduate from the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design with a focus on Illustration and minor in Communication Design, they have called Milwaukee their home for over a decade. While Salgado prefers working digitally, they also often work with acrylic paint, ink and other traditional mediums.
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Their style has been heavily influenced by Art Nouveau, pop art, and those childhood mornings watching anime before school. Mental health, emotions, and identity are recurring themes in their surrealistic portraits and focuses on creating work that is purposely colorful and inviting, to help facilitate conversations about difficult topics.
CONTACT
They are currently open for freelance work & collaborations. To commission an illustration or inquire about prints, kindly send details to: ws.illustrations@gmail.com
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CLIENTS
AWE (Artists Working in Education) | Capilano Courier | Cramer-Krasselt | DigBoston | Forest Home Cemetery & Arboretum | Kohl's Inc. | Latino Arts, Inc. | Like The Wind Magazine | LUNA (Latinas Unidas en Los Artes) | Marathon County Historical Society | Milwaukee Art Museum | Milwaukee Film Festival | Milwaukee Public Museum |Milwaukee Magazine | Milwaukee Short Film Festival |Narratively |Penfield Children's Center | Racine Zoo | Radiograffiti | Riverwest Femfest | Pretty Lethal Designs | San Francisco AIDS Foundation |Sixteenth Street Community Health | Soho Press, Inc. | The Farmhouse Paint and Sip | The Scientist | Willamette Weekly | Wisconsin Bike Fed
Bay View Gallery Night, LFC Studio, Milwaukee, WI, 2024
Gallery Night MKE, TerraSol Dispensary, Milwaukee, WI, 2024
Small Works Gallery, Var Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, 2024
30x30x30 Exhibition, Var Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, 2024
Gallery Night MKE, Urbaine Oasis Spa Boutique, Milwaukee, WI, 2023
Annual Members Exhibition, Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI, 2023
The Art of Limitless Scale, Mitchell Street Arts, Milwaukee, WI, 2023
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Human Draw Human Exhibition, Ome Municipal Museum of Arts, Tokyo, Japan, 2022
In Your Dreams Exhibition, Dreamlab MKE, Milwaukee, WI, 2022
Día de los Muertos Exhibition, Latino Arts, Inc., Milwaukee, WI, 2022
Annual MARN Members Exhibition, MARN ART + CULTURE HUB, Milwaukee, WI 2022
Hyphenated Americans Exhibition, Latino Arts, Inc., Milwaukee, WI, 2021
Dia de los Muertos Exhibition, Latino Arts, Inc., Milwaukee, WI, 2021
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Employee Artwork, Blick Art Materials, Milwaukee, WI 2017 - 2020
SWAN Day: Transformative Power, Milwaukee Therapy Collective, Milwaukee, WI, 2020
Leaders that We Love, Latinas Unidas en las Artes (LUNA), Virtual Exhibition, 2020
SWAN Day: Water, Reflection, Resource & Ritual, Urban Ecology Center, Milwaukee, WI, 2019
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ZipMKE: (Re)presented, Workshop Architects, Milwaukee, WI, 2018
Dia de Los Muertos Exhibition, Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI, 2018
Winos for Rhinos, Racine Zoo, Racine, WI 2018
10 Artist Collective Gallery, Sam Rémy, Milwaukee, WI, 2017
“Art of Whitney Salgado” Solo Exhibition, Hotpop Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, 2017
Femfest Gallery Exhibition, Groovy Dog Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, 2017
Winos for Rhinos, Racine Zoo, Racine, WI 2017
Hidden Wisconsin Exhibition, Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, WI, 2017
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Featured Artist Gallery, Next Act Theater, Milwaukee, WI, 2016
Student Art Gallery, Spire, Milwaukee, WI, 2015
MIAD Juried Exhibition, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI, 2015
MIAD Senior Thesis, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI, 2015
Our Stories: The History of Marathon County, Marathon County Historical Society, Wausau, WI, 2013
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