Belinda Flores-Shinshillas

BELINDA IS A CONTEMPORARY ARTIST BORN IN MEXICO CITY IN 1967 AND RESIDENT OF NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA.

Belinda’s work is of a contemporary character and highly influenced by surrealistic tendencies.Belinda's devotion for art began at an early age, continued and developed through studies of art history and analysis of the masters’ works in America and Europe. Belinda’s work transforms a spiritual art through vibrant colors, as an element of value, into a visual experience.This transformation allows the display of sensations and emotions that carry the observer to an apparent tranquility while meeting the delirious happiness represented by expressing our
observations.

Belinda attended the oldest art academy in the Americas, National School of Visual Arts, Old Academy of San Carlos in Mexico City. There Belinda studied under renowned masters Gilberto Aceves and Luis Rene Alva. She also studied under the well known Mexican muralist Manuel Guillen and Dr. Teresa del Conde at the Rufino Tamayo Museum in Mexico City.

Belinda has been included in selective group and solo exhibitions for more than fourteen years throughout Mexico and the United States. Belinda is a signature member of The National Acrylic Painters Association, a member of The Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club in New York City, a member of The Academie Europeenne Des Arts in Belgium, and a former member of the Advisory Board of the El Paso Museum of Art, among others.

ART EXHIBITIONS

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004 -"Perspectives" Exhibition. Galerie Royale, New Orleans, LA, USA
2003 - December 2003, Biennale Internazionale Dell’Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy.
Exhibition by invitation only.
2003 - Sierra Providence Health Network and El Paso Art Association, 36th Annual Arts
International Exhibition. The Centre Building. Downtown El Paso, TX
2003 - Up In Frames Fine Art Gallery, El Paso, TX, USA.
2003 - JME Studios Fine Art Gallery, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
2003 - Women’s Internacional Conference and Exhibition, Cuenca, Ecuador
2002 - Sierra Providence Health Network and El Paso Art Association, 35th Annual Arts
International Show. International Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas, USA.
2002 - Sun Bowl Art Exhibit, International Juried Competition, The International Museum of Art,
El Paso, Texas, USA.
2002 - River People-Winter Art Exhibition. El Paso County Court House. El Paso, TX, USA.
2002 - National Acrylic Painters Association 6th annual International Exhibition, Santa Fe, New
Mexico, USA
2002 - Ysleta Cultural Center. La Galeria de la Mision de Senecu, El Paso, Texas, USA.
2002 - JME Studios Fine Art Gallery, Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA
1996 - Art Fair at the American School of Mexico, Mexico City.
1994 - Exhibition at the Gallery of the National School of Visual Arts, Mexico City.
1993 - Exhibition at the Centro Cultural Novarte, Mexico City.
1992 - Centro Cultural Jaime Torres Bodet, Unidad Cultural Zacatenco, Instituto Politecnico
Nacional, Mexico City.
1991 - Auction for the benefit of School of Santa Maria A.C., Mexico City.
1990 - Gallery Capilla Britanica, Centro Cultural Juan Ruiz de Alarcon, Mexico City.
1989 - Juried Exhibition of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Centro Cultural Mexiquense, Mexico City.
1988 - Confrontation 88, Mexico City.
1987 - Exhibition at the Centro Cultural Novarte, Mexico City.
1986 - Art Fair, Delegation Benito Juarez, Mexico City.
1985 - Itinerant Exhibition, INBA. Mexico City.
1984 - Festival Pictorico, Acapulco, Gro. Mexico.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2003 - August 9, 2003 One Woman Exhibition, Latino Art Museum. Pomona, CA, USA
2003 - June 6, 2003 One Woman Exhibition, General Consulate of Mexico. El Paso, Texas
2002 - One Woman Exhibition. Carabeux Galleries, Galerie Royale Collection. New Orleans, LA.
1992 - Centro Cultural Jaime Torres Bodet, Unidad Cultural Zacatenco. Instituto Politecnico
Nacional, Mexico City.
1991 - Gallery of the National School of Visual Arts, Mexico City.
1990 - Gallery Capilla Britanica, Centro Cultural Juan Ruiz de Alarcon.
Mexico City.
1989 - Centro Cultural San Angel. Mexico City.
1988 - Art and History Center of Guadalajara, Jal. Mexico.
1987 - Art Salon Ateneo de Cuernavaca, Mor. Mexico.
1986 - Centro Cultural Novarte, Mexico City.

AWARDS AND SPECIAL RECOGNITIONS
Special recognition award of participation in the IV Women’s International Conference 2003,
Cuenca, Ecuador.

Special recognition award and Certificate of Appointment at the El Paso Museum of Art Advisory
Board, El Paso, TX.