Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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RESUME
ESO MALFLOR (b.1994) is a queer, trans, first-generation Mexican-Norwegian-American artist from Houston, Texas, now based in Chicago IL and Kjerringøy, Norway. A conceptual artist working across drawing, painting, sculpture, video, photography, installation, and performance, they create in an effort to collapse the space in between what we regard as ‘human nature’ and ‘nature.’ Their work is in the collections of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Institute of Art, and private collections across the US.
Upcoming Exhibitions:
06.2026 Three-person exhibition at Fotografiens Hus, Oslo, Norway
Solo + Two Person Exhibitions:
2024 The Earth is a Body in Transition / HAIR+NAILS / Minneapolis MN (solo)
2023 Sites of Exhaust: ESO MALFLOR + Nancy Julia Hicks / SOIL Art Gallery / Seattle WA
2023 Sites of Exhaust: ESO MALFLOR + Nancy Julia Hicks / Regis Center for Art / Minneapolis MN
2021 In Tending To / the pH Gallery / Fayetteville AR (solo)
2021 But the Skin of the Earth is Seamless / HAIR+NAILS / Minneapolis MN (solo)
2020 A Complex Desire / Sure Space / Minneapolis MN (solo)
Select Group Exhibitions:
2025 Photography Now / Woman Made Gallery / Chicago IL
2025 Friends of Dorothy / Evanston Art Center / Chicago IL
2025 PLASMIC / Second Shift Studio / St. Paul MN
2025 AFTER IMAGE 003 / AFTER/TIME / Portland OR
2025 SEA SALT // STONE AIR / Artruss / Chicago IL
2025 The Watcher / Mirror Lab / Minneapolis MN
2025 Leaves, Colors, and Machines Usurped / HAIR+NAILS / NYC
2024 Stand Out Prints / Highpoint Print Center / Minneapolis MN
2023 Currents / Public Functionary / Minneapolis MN
2023 Intervention / Nightclub / Minneapolis MN
2020 Critical* Reflections, Embodiments, and Disruptions / Clamp Light / San Antonio TX
2019 Interstellar Nepantla / Movement Gallery / San Antonio TX
2018 Sentades en Silencio / New Women Space / Brooklyn NY
2016 Crosscurrents / Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts / Philadelphia PA
Residencies, Honors, and Awards:
2024 Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence / Oak Spring Garden Foundation / Upperville VA
2024 MRAC Arts Impact for Individuals Grant
2024 Visual Arts Fund / Midway Contemporary Art & Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts
2024 Minnesota State Arts Board Creative Individuals Grant
2023 MRAC Arts Impact for Individuals Grant
2022 Creative Exchange Fund, The Medium Arts Artist in Residence, Springdale AR
2022 Artist and Essayist, El Mundo Zurdo 8: Selected Academic and Creative Works from the 2019 Meeting of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa (Publication), edited by Dr. Norma Cantú, Dr. Adrianna Santos, and Dr. Rita Urquijo-Ruiz
2021 FCA Emergency Grant
2020 Creative Business Grant, Ramsey County MN
2020 Artist Initiative Grant, awarded by the Minnesota State Arts Board
2019 Artist in Residence, Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake NY
2018 Artist in Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT
Collections:
2025 Helderberg Nature Reserve, Walker Art Center, MN
2025 Mi Abuelo y Yo (The Only Image), Otherness Archive
2025 Amalgamation no.2, Private Collection, MN
2023 I Was Never Created Nor Destroyed Only Transformed, Private Collection, MN
2022 The Way Back Home, Private Collection, IL
2020 Herida Abierta, Private Collection, MN
2020 Landscape, Private Collection, CA
2015 Untitled, Private Collection, NC
2015 Untitled (Sketch), Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN