Celina Hinojosa

Celina Hinojosa (born 1961) is an American painter of Chicana descent whose art focuses on the traditions, customs and rituals of South Texas.

Biography

Hinojosa was born in South Texas, but she currently lives in San Antonio, Texas. She has painted since 1974, although she started her artistic journey as a pianist at the age of eight, but she was later drawn to painting.

Hinojosa’s paintings tend to be vibrant and colorful with a subject in each painting. The subject is usually Mexican and the paintings capture images from daily life with everyday activities such as cooking.

Hinojosa began studying art in 1980 at Texas Southmost College in Brownsville where she received her A.A in fine arts. She continued her education at the University of Texas in Austin where she received her BFA in 1985. She decided to further her education at Texas A&M University in Kingsville where she received her MS in art in 1991.[1]

Her career took several paths as she was an illustrator, a lecturer and a freelance artist during certain periods of her life, but she decided to become a serious painter in 1996 and ever since then she has been steadily gaining attention over the years. She currently owns her own studio called the Celina Hinojosa Fine Art & The San Fernando Studio located in San Antonio, Texas.

Art

Hinojosa was included in a collection published by the University of Texas Press called A Library for the Americas: A library for the Americas: the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection..

She was a part of the “Estampas de la Raza” exhibition in 2016 that was organized by the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas.[2]

Hinojosa was also highlighted in another book called Chicano art for our millennium: collected works from the Arizona State University community that was published by the Bilingual Review Pr.[3]  

The Serie Project is a non-profit organization promoting fine art serigraphy. One of the artists that they are promoting is Celina Hinojosa. They have her 2003 “Andaba Perdida” painting listed on their website with a description of her career as an artist. They write about her journey as an artist and how she sold her first painting at the age of 16 and now she paints through the lens of a Chicana artist.[4]

Bibliography
  • Keller, Gary D (2002). Contemporary Chicana and Chicano art : artists, works, culture, and education. Tempe, AZ: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingue. ISBN 9781931010122.[5]

Collections

References
  1. "Serie Project".
  2. "National Museum of Mexican Art, Pilsen, Chicago". National Museum of Mexican Art, Pilsen, Chicago. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
  3. Keller, Gary D. (2004). Chicano art for our millennium : collected works from the Arizona State University community. Mary Erickson, Pat Villeneuve, Melanie Magisos, Craig Smith, Mesa Southwest Museum. Tempe, Ariz.: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe. ISBN 1-931010-25-0. OCLC 54046196.
  4. "Home". The Serie Project. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
  5. "Contemporary Chicana and Chicano Art: Artists, Works, Culture, and Education". www.asu.edu. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
  6. "Celina Hinojosa (American, b.1961)". McNay Art Museum. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
  7. "Celina Hinojosa | UTSA Libraries Art Collection". lib.utsa.edu. Retrieved 2021-12-12.
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