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 artistic style has been heavily influenced by the color palettes and heavy outlines of Art Nouveau, pop art, and those childhood mornings watching anime before school. In their personal digital work, mental health, emotions, and identity are recurring themes in their surrealistic portraits. Salgado's 3-Dimensional work such as, Nichos, primarily focuses on and is inspired by the powerful storytelling mediums found within their culture and its long-standing relationship with death.
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
Arts@Large | 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 |Near West Side Partners | 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
Consciousness in Craft: Exploring What Makes Us Human, Arts@Large, Milwaukee, WI 2025
Mother Lion Grand Re-Opening Artist Pop-Up, Mother Lion, Milwaukee, WI 2025
Bay View Gallery Night: A Collaboration between Latino Arts & Delaware House, Delaware House, Inc., Milwaukee, WI, 2025​
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Día de Los Muertos Ofrendas Exhibition, Latino Arts, Inc., Milwaukee, WI, 2024
Family Sunday's: Día de Los Muertos Celebration, Milwaukee Art Museum Arts, Milwaukee, WI, 2024
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
Día 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
Roots, Blick Art Materials, Milwaukee, WI, 2019
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
Myths, Lore, & Macabre, Blick Art Materials, Milwaukee, 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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