Mixed Media

Dallas, Texas

Viktor Ortix is an established artist and identifies as an artist of Mexica and Xicano descent, residing in Comanche and Caddo territory, presently known as Dallas, Texas. Viktor recently opened his own studio in Pleasant Grove; Mi Barrio 214. He has 10 years of experience working in the community as a visual artist with a focus in mixed media painting and printmaking. As a social artivist his work has also included performance art and most recently he has also expanded into including murals as part of his art form. Viktor attended El Centro College to study Chicano studies and Printmaking. He credits most of experience and artist training to being and working withhin the community. Viktor has traveled nationally hosting printmaking workshops with the mission to empower communities using their identity as an anchor and also including intergenerational participation in the arts by asking that kids and parents/guardians work together to create art. Cities he has hosted workshops in include Oakland, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Ca., Portland, Or, New Orleans, La., Phoenix, Az., Oahu, Hi., Washington, D.c., Colleville, Wa. Mandann ,North Dakota. His works reflect a contemporary view of what it means to grow up brown in America. Influenced by family heritage, as welas his own anarchist identity, Viktor works to express a brown perspective through contemporary art media. In Dallas, he works out of Mi Barrio 214 Studios in Pleasant Grove, and travels the American Southwest.