• Daniela Tinoco is a transdisciplinary artist from Cholula, Mexico, currently living on Ohlone Land and pursuing her MFA in Art Practice at San Francisco State University.

    Through repurposing and fragmenting discursive elements, her work disrupts and reorients structures of domination, seeking possibilities for a transformed future rooted in solidarity, collective elaboration of meaning, and reclamation of agency.

    She is a co-founder of the annual Enero Zapatista Bay Area and has exhibited her work at the Berkeley Art Center, ATA Right Window, and SOMArts. Daniela is the recipient of the 2024 Edwin Anthony & Adelaine Boudreaux Cadogan Scholarship and a member of the research group Autonomous Imaginaries: For Collective and Counter-Hegemonic Artistic Practices at the UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender Studies.

  • Born 1994 Cholula, Puebla; Mexico

    Lives and works in San Francisco, California

    ig: @la_flaca_mas_tierna / email: contact.danielatinoco@gmail.com

    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.


    SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

    2024 (Upcoming) Murphy & Cadogan art awards exhibition at SOMARTS, San Francisco, California.

    2024 (Upcoming) 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.

    2022 Bit parts, solo show at Right Window/ATA Building, San Francisco, California.

    AWARDS, GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES

    2024 Edwin Anthony & Adelaine Boudreaux Cadogan Scholarship, San Francisco, California.

    2024 Martin Wong Foundation Scholarship award in Ceramics, San Francisco, California.

    2024 UC Berkeley Center of Race and Gender research group, Autonomous Imaginaries: Collective & counter-hegemonic artistic practices, Berkeley, California.

    2024 Climate HQ Mini Grants Program “Batteries’ Climate Justice, Water Stories, and Mineral Songs,” SFSU, San Francisco, California.

    2024 New Wave Scholarship for Jasmine Baetz’s Studio Session at A-B projects, Portland, Oregon.

    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

    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

    2024 San Francisco State University’s Instructure 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.

    2022 Volunteer, 10th East Bay Print Sale, Berkeley, California.

    2021 Assistant, Residency Program Iman, Puebla and Mexico City, Mexico.

    2020 Organizer and co-funder, Cabaret Feminista’s book club and movie debate group, Puebla, Mexico.

    2020 Assistant, Seminary on Rita Segato´s Book Counter-pedagogies of cruelty taught by Professor Juan Vicente López, Puebla, Mexico.

    2020 Volunteer, Red Vivan las Mujeres (Long live women's network), Amnesty International, Puebla, Mexico.

    2017 Coordinator, Tierra de Artistas A.C. project Muros que unen (Walls that bring us together), San Andres Cholula, Puebla, Mexico.

    2016 Coordinator, Tierra de Artistas A.C. project Una mirada a mi país (A glance of my country), San Andres Cholula, Puebla, Mexico.

    2014 Volunteer, Tierra de Artistas A.C. project Una mirada a mi país (A glance of my country), Aquixtla, Puebla, Mexico.