Jimena Salinas
Illustrator & Designer based in Barcelona.
“Feminist objectivity means, quite simply, situated knowledges.”
— Donna Haraway
Jimena is an illustrator and designer from Lima, currently based in Barcelona. She holds a BA in Communication Sciences from Universidad de Lima and a Master in Design for Emergent Futures from Elisava and the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC). She currently combines design and innovation projects with her work in illustration and art.
Her work has been exhibited in solo shows such as Todo es Pasajero at TOC Hostels, Barcelona (2023), as well as in group exhibitions and events including Noche de Arte BBVA (2017) and the Imagen Palabra Festival (2016) in Lima, Perú. In 2020 she self-published her first book, Retratarlas.
Working mainly with watercolours, pastels and inks, she creates scenes where humans interact harmoniously with nature, evoking feelings of melancholy, nostalgia and tenderness.
Education & Training
- Postgraduate in Creative Illustration and Visual Communication Techniques, EINA, UAB (Barcelona, Spain – 2024)- Editorial Illustration Workshop with Paula Bonet (Barcelona, Spain – 2024)
- Illustration with Technical Pen Workshop with Laura Agustí (Barcelona, Spain – 2022)
- Online Portrait Workshop with Jade Rivera (Lima, Peru – 2020)
- Character Creation and Creative Portrait Workshop with María Hesse (Lima, Peru – 2019)
In parallel, Jimena works as a consultant in innovation and new product and service development, and was co-director and founder of Candela Brand Kitchen, a boutique branding studio. As a designer and consultant, she has worked on projects addressing workplace sexual harassment, positive masculinities, pay inequality, digital behaviours in Latin America, and futures literacy with children and migrant women. Her design practice seeks to address the structural causes behind any design challenge and recognises that climate justice cannot happen without gender equality.
📁 Catalogue of illustrations available in Europe
📁 Illustration catalogue
✉️ You can get in touch at jimena.salinasg@gmail.com