Whitney Salgado is a Mexican-American multi-media artist that currently resides in Milwaukee, WI. 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 has utilized digital tools and software to create art, they are a strong advocate for human-crafted art and embracing traditional art mediums.

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Their artistic style has been heavily influenced by heavy stylistic outlines of Art Nouveau movement, pop art, and those childhood mornings watching anime before school. In their personal digital work, mental health, emotions, processing trauma, and identity are recurring themes in their surrealistic portraits.​

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Salgado enjoys experimenting with color, and is continuously inspired by the colorful patterns and palettes found within Mexican folk art. 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, remembrance, and love.

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Salgado considers the act of creating as intergral to life itself. They believe expression and problem-solving go hand in hand with being creative, and so they enjoy a variety of hobbies in their free time. Aside from painting on a canvas, digital or stretched, they enjoy nerding out with TCGs, cosplay, creating props & accessories, and crafting in general.