Jesus Salas

NIAD artist since 2014
Jesus Salas

Jesus's map-like drawings record the regularity of his routine as well as the idiosyncratic yet significant changes that happen over a long period of time.

Pepper Stetler, Professor of Art and Architecture History at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio

Featured Artworks

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Artist Bio

Jesus Salas (b. 1991) is an artist based in the Bay Area. Since joining NIAD Art Center in 2014, he has produced hundreds of prints and works on paper that record travel, routine, memory, and the steady passage of time. 

Salas brings a sculptor’s sensibilities to his flat works. Many compositions are built up from layers of numbers, symbols, or colorful hatch marks. Other scenes are detailed tales from the road: precise renderings of buses on folded paper, in which the vehicle’s exterior is described on the outer panels, and its interior, with rows of empty seats, is drawn across the inner spread. Salas outlines the windows and windshield so that designs from either side show through when the paper is held up to the light. 

With series that range from densely patterned abstractions to more legible landscapes and travel logs, Salas maps the incremental shifts in his surrounding environment. 

Jesus Salas work has been featured in group exhibitions at Art Enables, Washington D.C.; the Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA; NAP Projects, New York, NY; and Art and Learning Studio, Portland, OR.

Exhibition Highlights

Jesus Salas
NIAD Gallery Exhibition
2017
A Kind of Movement
organized by Jay Wehnert
Art And Learning Studio
2019
Ether Here Nor There: Anthony Grant x NIAD
NIAD Art Center
2019
Future Cats Career Box
NAP Projects
2018