Biography 

Nahúm Flores (born 1974, Danlí, Honduras) 

Nahúm Flores is a Honduran visual artist based in Toronto. Nahúm holds a bachelor of fine arts in drawing and painting from the Ontario College of Art and Design (2001). In 2023 Nahúm completed a master in fine arts from Ontario College of Art and Design. Since 2004, Nahúm has collaborated with the Toronto-based Z'otz* Collective with Latin American artists Erick Jerezano and Ilyana Martínez. The collective creates art through drawings, ceramic sculptures, and site-specific installations, and has collaborated in Canada and abroad, including residencies in Croatia and Serbia. Nahúm has been awarded grants from the Pollock–Krasner Foundation (2012), the 2014 Visual Artists: Mid-Career grant by the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council. 

Nahúm Flores’s studio work is mixed media fusing photographic transfers, drawings, and matter such as Plexiglas, wood panels, or tins intuitively layered on canvas to playfully reflect on the landscape and the Indigenous peoples of Honduras through characters. Nahúm’s work has been showcased in several exhibitions with the Z'otz* Collective including at Robert Langen Art Gallery and Wilfrid Laurier University Library (2023), in Waterloo, Ontario, curated by Suzanne Lake, at Visual Art Centre (2023) in Montreal, and at the Gardiner Museum (2022) in Toronto.

La Familia

2016

Mixed media drawing 

Image from collective exhibition Unpredictable Patterns with Z'otz* Collective, curated by Tamara Toledo, Sur Gallery, Toronto, 2017. Photograph by MG

Solo exhibitions

Nahúm Flores review by El Heraldo, solo exhibition Los Herederos, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 2019 

Nahúm Flores press release by Maria Teresa Agurcia, solo exhibition Los Herederos, Museo para la Identidad Nacional, Honduras, 2016 

Nahúm Flores review by Carlos Lanza, solo exhibition Los Herederos, Museo para la Identidad Nacional, Honduras, 2016 

Collective exhibitions

Nahúm Flores press release by Tim Svendsen, Z'otz* Collective exhibition, curated by Suzanne Lake, Robert Langen Art Gallery and Wilfrid Laurier University Library, Waterloo, Ontario, 2023 

Nahúm Flores press release by Isabel Buckmaster, Z'otz* Collective exhibition, curated by Suzanne Lake, Robert Langen Art Gallery and Wilfrid Laurier University Library, Waterloo, Ontario, 2023 

Nahúm Flores press release by Suzanne Lake, Z'otz* Collective exhibition, curated by Suzanne Lake, Robert Langen Art Gallery and Wilfrid Laurier University Library, Waterloo, Ontario, 2023

Nahúm Flores press release Z'otz* Collective exhibition, Visual Art Centre, Montreal, 2023 

Nahúm Flores press release by Karen Mendoza, Z'otz* Collective exhibition, Gardiner Museum, 2022 (Spanish)

Nahúm Flores press release Z'otz* Collective community project, Art Windsor-Essex, Windsor, Ontario, 2022 

Nahúm Flores Z'otz* Collective exhibition, curated by Getiane Belanger, Foreman Art Gallery of Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, Quebec, 2021 

Nahúm Flores collective exhibition Ode to Inside Out Questions with Z'otz* Collective, curated by Sonya Balzek, Judith and Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, Ontario, 2021 

Nahúm Flores digital publication, collective exhibition Ode to Inside Out Questions with Z'otz* Collective, curated by Sonya Balzek, Judith and Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, Ontario, 2021 

Nahúm Flores press release by Paul Morden, collective exhibition Ode to Inside Out Questions with Z'otz* Collective, curated by Sonya Balzek, Judith and Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, Ontario, 2020 

Nahúm Flores press release,  collective exhibition Ode to Inside Out Questions with Z'otz* Collective, curated by Sonya Balzek, at the Judith and Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, Ontario, 2020 

Nahúm Flores press release by Carl Hnatyshyn, collective exhibition Ode to Inside Out Questions with Z'otz* Collective, curated by Sonya Balzek, Judith and Norman Alix Art Gallery, Sarnia, Ontario, 2020 

Nahúm Flores press release by Michael Turner, residency exhibition Paradoxes of a Soft SpokenTree with Z'otz* Collective, Oxygen Art Centre, Nelson, BC, 2020   

Nahúm Flores press release collective exhibition Paradoxes of a Soft Spoken Tree with Z'otz* Collective, Oxygen Art Centre, Nelson, BC, 2020 

Nahúm Flores collective exhibition Waiting Outside of My Hand with Z'otz* Collective, curated by Sandy Saad Smith, Visual Art Centre of Clarington, Bowmanville, Ontario, 2019

Nahúm Flores digital catalogue collective exhibition Waiting Outside of My Hand Z'otz* Collective, curated by Sandy Saad Smith, Visual Art Centre of Clarington, Bowmanville, Ontario, 2019 

Nahúm Flores press release, collective exhibition Waiting Outside of My Hand with Z'otz* Collective, curated by Sandy Saad Smith, Visual Art Centre of Clarington, Bowmanville, Ontario, 2019

Nahúm Flores exhibition review, collective exhibition Waiting Outside of My Hand with Z'otz* Collective, curated by Sandy Saad Smith, Visual Art Centre of Clarington, Bowmanville, Ontario, 2019 

Nahúm Flores press release collective exhibition Waiting Outside of My Hand with Z'otz* Collective, curated by Sandy Saad Smith, Visual Art Centre of Clarington, Bowmanville, Ontario, 2019 

Nahúm Flores press release collective exhibition Waiting Outside of My Hand with Z'otz* Collective, curated by Sandy Saad Smith, Visual Art Centre of Clarington, Bowmanville, Ontario, 2019 

Nahúm Flores press release collective exhibition Small Contribution to a Big Moment with Z'otz* Collective, YYZ Artist’s Outlet, Toronto, 2019 

Nahúm Flores press release Latin American visual artists collective exhibition Conexiones, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Quebec, 2018 

Nahúm Flores press release collective exhibition Unpredictable Patterns with Z'otz* Collective, curated by Tamara Toledo, Sur Gallery, Toronto, 2017 

Nahúm Flores press release Latin American visual artists collective exhibition TransAMERICAS, Museum London, London, Ontario, 2017 

Nahúm Flores profile collective exhibition Playing Strange, Earls Court Art Gallery, Hamilton, Ontario, 2015 

Nahúm Flores press release exhibition Invasion of Eloquence with Z'otz* Collective, at Orleans Gallery, Ottawa School of Art, Ottawa, Ontario, 2015

Nahúm Flores press release exhibition The Substitutes and the Absence with Z'otz* Collective, curated by Blair Fornwald, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, 2013 

Nahúm Flores review by Janine Abuluyan, exhibition Memorable Paths of the Fly with Z'otz* Collective, Union Gallery, Toronto, 2013 

Nahúm Flores press release collective exhibition Hourglass Continent, curated by Ben Portis, Janice Laking Gallery, McLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario, 2012

Interviews

Nahúm Flores video interview by Articsok Gallery, 2014

Presentations

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Published work by Nahúm Flores

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Published work about Nahúm Flores

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Press release

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List of Grants, Awards and Projects

Nahúm Flores press release Z'otz* Collective residency, ArtsPlace Gallery, Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, 2023 

Nahúm Flores mural project The Shy Agreement  with Z'otz* Collective, Lambton Heritage Museum, Grand Bend, Ontario, 2020 

Nahúm Flores press release residency collective exhibition Paradoxes of a Soft Spoken Tree with Z'otz* Collective, Oxygen Art Centre, Nelson, BC, 2020

Nahúm Flores press release residency collective exhibition Paradoxes of a Soft Spoken Tree with Z'otz* Collective, Oxygen Art Centre, Nelson, BC, 2020 

Nahúm Flores press release residency exhibition Paradoxes of a Soft Spoken Tree with Z'otz* Collective, Oxygen Art Centre, Nelson, BC, 2020

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