MFSF
About the Artist
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Flores is a Mexican-American artist, born and raised in Oregon. She was living in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the past two years to finish her education, and has recently returned back to Oregon. She currently works within the Beaverton School District as a Para Educator 1 and Cross Guard at an elementary school.
Sanchez Flores has exhibited her work at Pacific Northwest College of Art (Portland, OR), Blue Sky Gallery (Portland, OR), LightBox Photographic Gallery (Astoria, OR), Squirrel Haus Arts (Minneapolis, MN), Minneapolis College of Art and Design (Minneapolis, MN), and Collected Gallery (Minneapolis, MN). She has three associate degrees in Associate of Arts, Associate of Science, and Associate of General Studies from Portland Community College, Portland, OR. She has recently earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Media Arts with a concentration in Photography, and two minors in Curatorial Studies and Art History from Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN.
Quote from the Artist
“Photography has always been a way for me to express myself when my own words cannot. I transmit myself through the camera and see the art I can make. I explore all the variety of ways photography can be used within digital, analog, alternative processes, and more. I also enjoy using different mediums such as multi-media using video and sound elements, and mixed-media such as paper, text, and objects, and incorporating it with photography when I can. I primarily make documentary photography and art based on my life experiences, my everyday journey, expressing my emotions, and speaking on issues that have impacted my community and myself such as Latinos, students, and women. Whenever I can, I like to make more personal, in-depth projects to challenge myself as an artist to see what new things I can discover within myself. Through my art, I often make work that has two different goals; firstly, I hope the viewer can simply enjoy the art as it is and secondly, to captivate viewers to think deeper than the surface level of the art they have in front of them and to put themselves within the art to see how it impacts them.”