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Daniela Tinoco is a transdisciplinary artist from Cholula, Puebla, currently dividing her time between Central Mexico and the Bay Area.
Tinoco’s work insists on the necessity of vigilance, disruption, and collective reclamation.Whether through the material poetics of clay, the critical excavation of historical media, or the communal resonance of music, her practice invites audiences to listen closely—to the land, to language, and to the voices that refuse to be silenced.
A recent MFA graduate from San Francisco State University, Tinoco is also a co-founder of the annual Enero Zapatista Bay Area. Her work has been showcased at the Berkeley Art Center, ATA Right Window, and SOMArts. She is the recipient of the 2024 Edwin Anthony & Adelaine Boudreaux Cadogan Scholarship and is a member of the Autonomous Imaginaries: For Collective and Counter-Hegemonic Artistic Practices research group at the UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender Studies.
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Daniela Tinoco
Born 1994 Cholula, Puebla; Mexico
ig: @la_flaca_mas_tierna / email: contact.danielatinoco@gmail.com
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025 Autonomous Zones, SFSU MFA Thesis Show at SFSU Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California.
2025 Objects of Inquiry: The Office for The Study of the Ordinary at SFSU Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California.
2025 Daniela Tinoco at The Ramp Gallery solo show at SOMARTS, San Francisco, California.
2025 Co-Curator, 2nd Annual Enero Zapatista Bay Area Exhibition: Dreaming from Below: Autonomias Rebeldes in the Bay Area by Melanie Cervantes, Jesus Barraza and Gilda Posada at EastSide Arts and Alliance, Oakland, California.
2024 Murphy & Cadogan art awards exhibition at SOMARTS, San Francisco, California.
2024 MIPMAPMOP: a monthly income plan, a representation, a household implement at Your mood projects, San Francisco, California.
2024 Low Dust at Soil, Seattle, Washington.
2024 Berkeley Art Center Members Exhibition at Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California.
2024 SFSU Students Selection for the California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Arts, Davis, California.
2024 The Sign is the light that dwells within the act, solo show at Martin Wong Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California.
2024 Co-Curator, 1st Annual Enero Zapatista Bay Area Exhibition: Propaganda y Conciencia “Arte al servicio del Pueblo” by Gran OM & Kloer at EastSide Arts and Alliance, Oakland, California.
2022 Bit parts, solo show at Right Window/ATA Building, San Francisco, California.
AWARDS, GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2025 Recology Artist in Residence (AIR) Program, San Francisco, California.
2024 UC Berkeley Center of Race and Gender research group, Autonomous Imaginaries: Collective & counter-hegemonic artistic practices, Berkeley, California.
2024 Edwin Anthony & Adelaine Boudreaux Cadogan Scholarship, San Francisco, California.
2024 Martin Wong Foundation Scholarship award in Ceramics, San Francisco, California.
2024 Climate HQ Mini Grants Program “Batteries’ Climate Justice, Water Stories, and Mineral Songs,” SFSU, San Francisco, California.
2024 Martin Wong Winter residency San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California.
2023 Sher-Right Scholarship in Art, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California.
2021 Residency program Imán by Artist-run spaces Error and La Verdi, Puebla and Mexico City, Mexico.
PUBLICATIONS
2025 Ya Banat Poblanas, design and print, San Francisco, California.
2024 Portales, A Medicina para Pesadillas Anthology Issue #3, design and print, San Francisco, California.
2024 Eating as becoming, booklet collaboration with Sun Park for the exhibition When Unearthed Sights Collide, design and print, San Francisco, California.
2024 All of you come in!, poetry zine in collaboration with SFSU Faculty for Justice in Palestine, design and print, San Francisco, California.
2024 The sign is the light that dwells within the act, author and designer, San Francisco, California.
2023 Rose Madder Lake, Amy Trachtenberg artist book first edition, designer, San Francisco, California.
2022 Nuevo hogar/New home Zine, author and designer, San Francisco, California.
2021 Fantasma no.1, Antología de textos sobre el silencio, Collaborative texts by artist-run space Error, designer, Puebla, Mexico.
2021 Gimnasio de la lengua, Collaborative texts by Iman’s 2020-21 cohort, collaborator and designer, Mexico City, Mexico.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND COMMUNITY WORK
2025 Organizer and co-founder of the Second Enero Zapatista Bay Area, a January month-long series of events commemorating the Zapatistas, Oakland, California.
2024 Apexart NYC Exhibition Program, Juror, New York City, New York.
2024 San Francisco State University's Graduate Teaching Associate and Curator for Art 380 Visiting Artist Lecture Series (Carolina Aranibar-Fernandez, Selby Sohn, Miriam Stahl, Natasha Loewy, Kevin Chen, Kelley O’leary, Trina Michelle Robinson, Kate Laster, Ebti and Enrique Chagoya), San Francisco,California.
2024 San Francisco State University's Graduate Assistant for the Sculpture department, San Francisco, California.
2024 San Francisco State University’s Graduate Assistant for Art 319 Art Handling Certificate, San Francisco, California.
2024 Volunteer at Creativity Explored in the ceramics area, San Francisco California.
2024 Organizer and co-founder of the first Enero Zapatista Bay Area, a January month-long series of events commemorating the Zapatistas, Oakland, California.
2023 Guest lecture on Risograph printing for the Art 335 Foundations in printmaking class, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California.
2023 San Francisco State University's Graduate Assistant for the Painting and Drawing Department, San Francisco, California.
2023 Organizing committee, MFA Fall Lecture Series (Kija Lucas and champoy), San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California.
2022 Featured reader at Speaking Axolotl, a chicanx/latinx literary series, Medicine for Nightmares Bookstore, San Francisco, California.
EDUCATION
2025 (Expected) MFA, Fine Art, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California.
2017 BA, Industrial Design, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores Monterrey, Puebla, Mexico.
2016 Semester abroad, Industrial Design, UC Escuela Superior de Ingeniería, Cadiz, Spain.
2014 Semester abroad in Communication and Hypermedia, IAE Savoie Mont Blanc, Annecy, France.