Virginia Vilchis, born in Mexico in 1980, is a mixed media artist that uses a variety of textures and abstract qualities to create her paintings. Her works have a unique tactile quality with condensations of images, layers and compilation of oils, acrylics, watercolors and pastels, as well as fabrics and collage. She often superimposes her feelings, ideas, dreams, emotions, and surroundings to convey to the observer an outcome that is not only sophisticated and intricate but also often surreal and mysterious. Further, her experience with the ceramic arts is seen extensively in the texture and shapes embedded in her paintings.
Beginning life as a teenage farm worker in Bakersfield, CA when she first moved to the United States in 1994, she overcame many obstacles until finally deciding to purse her passion for art as a profession.
Her work has been exhibited at the Muzeo in Anaheim, CA., the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, CA, and the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY among other venues. Her work is present in private and public collections throughout the United States.
She graduated with a BFA degree from Syracuse University in 2011.