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LIFE & EXPERIENCE
Pamela Encinas
[b. 1988, Irapuato, Mexico]
Pamela Encinas is a Mexican multidisciplinary artist. She was raised in a highly creative household shaped by two generations of architects and, more recently, a self-taught artist mother. From an early age, she was immersed in a world of expression through crafts, games, museum visits, and travel, cultivating a deep appreciation for aesthetic culture. The fusion of her Mexican roots with her family’s Spanish-French heritage further nurtured and profoundly shaped her passion for the arts.
At fifteen, she began a formative journey through art institutions across Europe and Mexico, visiting world-class museums and the homes of modern masters such as Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Antoni Gaudí, Rufino Tamayo, and Frida Kahlo, as well as major exhibitions of artists like Wassily Kandinsky and Marc Chagall. These experiences shaped her artistic foundation and continue to influence her work. At eighteen, she moved to the United Kingdom, living in Cambridge and London, where she gained early independent exposure to European life, languages, and art history. Two years later, she relocated to Florence, earning a B.A. in Visual Arts from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, where she lived for nearly a decade, developing her artistic voice and embracing Italian culture as a second home.
In 2016, she moved to Houston, where she currently resides and continues to evolve as a visual artist. Her practice spans painting, collage, assemblage, and other mixed media, which she approaches as flexible tools rather than fixed categories. Her work invites viewers to connect through an aesthetic appreciation of everyday life and the emotional dimensions of the human spirit, engaging with themes of identity, belonging, collective memory, and present-day narratives.
Pamela’s work has earned recognition both locally and internationally, with solo and group exhibitions and collaborations with reputable institutions such as the Holocaust Museum Houston, the Consulate General of Mexico in Houston, the French-American Chamber of Commerce of Texas, the Houston Symphony, and the Alliance Française de Houston. She has also participated in international competitions, with her work notably held in private art collections abroad.
Alongside her creative practice, she is an experienced art advisor with extensive knowledge of modern, post-war, and contemporary art. Her professional path includes nearly eight years with prominent blue-chip galleries, where she has collaborated with leading and cutting-edge artists, participated in major global art fairs, and built enduring relationships with collectors, curators, and important institutions.
Statement
“My visual language unfolds as an inner exploration of human emotions, personal imagery, and lived experiences, engaging with the contemporary world through color, balance, instinctive composition, sensory perception, and intercultural inquiry. My practice is grounded in both intuition and research, where emotional awareness and experimentation coexist as complementary forms of knowledge. Being these an essential part of my process, I treat each creation as an open study shaped by observation, reflection, cultural references, and present-day contexts. Together, these influences enable the work to evolve organically, remaining responsive to internal states as well as external realities."
EXPERIENCE
Exhibitions & Projects
ARTIST
- 2026
- Riviera Night Annual Fundraising Gala Silent Auction Donation | The Alliance Française of Houston; Houston, USA
- 2025
- Marché de Noël Solo Booth | The Alliance Française of Houston; Houston, USA
- French Festival Solo Booth | French-American Chamber of Commerce Texas | The POST; Houston, USA
- Monet Garden Annual Fundraising Gala Silent Auction Donation | Houston Symphony; Houston, USA
- 2024
- A Mexican Night to Remember Collective exhibition | redM; Houston, USA
- ENCU3NTROS - ENCOUNT3RS Solo exhibtion, General Consulate of Mexico in Houston | Houston, TX - USA
- 2023
Colorium - Collective exhibition Gallerium Art | Toronto, Canada
- 2022
Five Senses - Wine Label Artist contest; Wine and Roses Festival | College Station, TX - USA
- 2021
WITHSTAND: Latinx Art in Times of Conflict | Collective exhibtion, Holocaust Museum of Houston | Houston, TX - USA
- 2017-20
XANTOLO: Día de los Muertos - Edition I, II, III; Art Exhibit + Altar Installation, Collaboration with artist Betirri | Houston, TX
- 2018
- Co-Founder Lapiem | Project Collaboration with Mablueart | Houston, TX
- RAW Magnify | Natural Born Artists Show (2018) Houston, TX
-International Women’s Day | General Consulate of Mexico (March 8, 2018) Houston, TX
-La Sopa" | Avant Garden Art Market - Houston, TX
- 2017
- TRAZOS Contemporary Art Exhibit - Houston, TX
- Conversatorios de Lenguaje Plástico | Institute of Hispanic Culture in Houston - Houston, TX
- 2014-15
- Unusual Florence Art Festival | Amblè & Aria Art Gallery; Ostello Tasso; Florence, Italy
- Giardino Artistico - Collective plain-air exhibition & live painting | Pisa in Fiore, V Edizione; Pisa, Italy
- Cheap on Board - Street Art Poster contest | Film Festival; Bologna, Italy
- Eat the Future! - Illustration & Graphic Design contest | Art Festival; Bologna, Italy
- Firenze Capitale 14 Maggio 1865 - Illustration contest | Caran d’Ache; Le Giubbe Rosse; Florence, Italy
ADVISOR
- 2023-present - Freelance
- 2018-23 - Art of the World Gallery | Advisor, Curator Assistant, Business Development, Project & Marketing Manager; Houston, TX - USA
- 2019-23 - ZonaMACO Art Fair | Advisor & Curator Assistant - AOTW Gallery; Mexico City, Mexico
- 2019-22 Art Miami Fair | Advisor & Curator Assistant - AOTW Gallery; Miami, FL - USA
- 2020 - Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary Art Fair | Advisor & Curator Assistant - AOTW Gallery; Palm Beach, FL - USA
- 2018 - “Nueve Nuevos Pecados” ArteSano Exhibition by Architect & Designer Juan Antonio Encinas and Artist & Illustrator Fabricio Vanden Broeck | Independent Curator Assistant & Sales Associate - Club France; Mexico City, Mexico
- 2016-18 - Serrano Gallery | Sales Associate, Marketing, and Curator Assistant; Houston, TX - USA / Oaxacan contemporary artist Rolando Rojas studio shows + varied collective exhibit projects.
- 2014-15 - Aria Art Gallery | Sales Associate, Marketing, and Curator Assistant; Florence, Italy
- Pamela Encinas portrait by Federico Montani.