We can find art everywhere, and consciously or unconsciously, we benefit from it all the time. Whether is a painting beautifying your living room, or the abstract wallpaper on your electronic devices, all of it comes from someone who is either self-taught or spend a few years in college.
On Instagram, we can also find everything, from Latinx-owned small business to experts of digital art. This platform has helped millions of people to build their careers, share their talents plus inspire and educate others.
To keep celebrating Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month, we enlisted some illustrators that not only have in common their passion for art, but they also have found recognition on one of the most used social media platforms.
Camila Rosa
Camila Rosa is an Illustrator and Visual Artist from Brazil. She started her career in 2010 as a member of a female street art collective. Her work not only can be found on the streets, but also has been featured in magazines and books, plus exhibitions like Hear Our Voice, Ten Years of Social, When She Rises, and more. Her clientele includes companies and brands like Apple, Nike, Spotify, Adidas, The Wall Street Journal, WeTransfer, etc. Her art translates women from an alternative perspective, and as an artist, Rosa continuously seeks to approach political themes to push social change and educate people around the world.
Dia Pacheco
Dia Pacheco is a graphic designer, illustrator, and freelance tattoo artist based in Mexico City. Her work continually evolves and represents the Mexican folklore’s most iconic elements, including real-life situations, humor, stories, and personal tastes. She finds inspiration in the colorful fruit, people, and traditional dishes found in La Merced, one of the most notorious markets in Mexico City.
Gabriela Alemán
Gabriela Alemán is a first-generation American, queer, child of Central American immigrants and an illustrator, visual artist, writer, and organizer from San Francisco’s Mission District. Her art resonates with the aesthetic of comics and pop art; Therefore, her illustrations are boldly-colored. Her graphics highlight the Latinx cultural iconography rarely found in most mainstream art.
Aimée Mazara
Aimée Mazara is a Dominican illustrator who graduated from Altos de Chavón School of Design. She has a degree in Graphic Design, Fine Arts, and Illustration, and uses her knowledge and talent to share personal experiences and explain situations and historical events of the Caribbean country.
Soni López-Chávez
Soni López-Chávez is a San Diego-based illustrator from Guanajuato, Mexico. Although she started drawing when she was a little girl, she realized painting was her passion as an adult. López-Chávez has painted hundreds of Acrylic pieces, including murals, and now she decided to explore digital art.
Indira Prieto
Indira Prieto is a graphic designer, letterer, and typographer from Cuba and living in Miami, FL. The artists describe herself as a woman obsessed with letterforms. Her work typically incorporates bright pops of color, vibrant typography, and inspirational quotes in Spanglish.
Isabela Alvarez
Isabela Alvarez, better known as Isaboleta, is an illustrator from Valencia, Venezuela. In 2018 she graduated in Visual Communication at the Institute of Digital Design in Valencia; after growing up knowing that her passion was in the arts. Alvarez works exude an expressionist take on contemporary high fashion. She describes it as a personalized expression of herself.
She has been featured on Vogue Mexico, Vogue UK, Harper‘s Bazaar Latin America; her clientele includes Marc Jacobs, American Express, and Ford Motors.
Whitney Dobladillo
Whitney Dobladillo is a first-generation Peruvian-American from Brooklyn, NY. She has been designing for over 8 years about her heritage and identity. Recently she launched a platform dedicated to her Peruvian community called Peruvian Sisters.