Ninfa Espinoza

Painting

2026

Works from Intercambios cotidianos — the artist's first solo exhibition, Centro Cultural Sampedrano, San Pedro Sula, 2026.

Regreso a casa — night street scene, a cotton-candy vendor with a bicycle under a highway overpass beside an ALTO stop sign — Regreso a casa

2026 · Mixed media (acrylic and paper collage) on canvas · 90 × 60 cm

Amor Para Llevar — mixed media painting — Amor Para Llevar

2026 · Mixed media · 60 × 60 cm

Selected for *Esencia de Mujer*, Centro Cultural Sampedrano, 2026

Entre carros — a cotton-candy vendor glimpsed between parked cars, teal and newspaper-collage background — Entre carros

2026 · Mixed media (acrylic and paper collage) on canvas · 60 × 60 cm

Fuera de foco — tall narrow painting, a blurred figure in green beside pink cotton candy over newspaper collage — Fuera de foco

2026 · Mixed media (acrylic and paper collage) on canvas · 50 × 20 cm

A través del sol que brilla — a woman carries a basin on her head crossing a sunlit yellow street — A través del sol que brilla

2026 · Mixed media (acrylic and paper collage) on canvas · 100 × 80 cm

Audaz entrega — two figures balanced acrobatically, one standing on another's shoulders juggling, purple street scene — Audaz entrega

2026 · Mixed media (acrylic and paper collage) on canvas · 120 × 80 cm

De la tradición a la venta — a vendor behind stacks of traditional breads and sweets, lilac background — De la tradición a la venta

2026 · Acrylic on canvas · 60 × 90 cm

El puesto por las vías — a colorful hot-dog street cart with umbrellas and a railroad-crossing sign — El puesto por las vías

2026 · Mixed media (acrylic and paper collage) on canvas · 100 × 70 cm

Familia en el negocio — a bread vendor surrounded by hanging bags of bread, lilac background — Familia en el negocio

2026 · Acrylic on canvas · 70 × 100 cm

Producción y memoria — triptych of green, orange and blue panels holding rows of real cotton candy — Producción y memoria

2026 · Mixed media (miniature cotton candy series) on canvas · Triptych, 80 × 80 cm each

Sin título I — small framed piece, pink cotton candy in a plastic bag over a newspaper and photo collage — Sin título I

2026 · Mixed media (paper collage and object) on paper, framed · 15 × 15 cm

Bici cargada — mixed media painting by Ninfa Espinoza — Bici cargada

2026 · Mixed media (acrylic and paper collage) on canvas · 60 × 60 cm

En la pasada — acrylic painting by Ninfa Espinoza — En la pasada

2026 · Acrylic on canvas · 60 × 90 cm

En la prisa y lo temporal — acrylic painting by Ninfa Espinoza — En la prisa y lo temporal

2026 · Acrylic on canvas · 70 × 100 cm

Silencio a alta noche — mixed media painting by Ninfa Espinoza — Silencio a alta noche

2026 · Mixed media (acrylic and paper collage) on canvas · 80 × 80 cm

Sin título II — diptych, two small canvases with pink cotton candy over blue newspaper — Sin título II

2026 · Mixed media (acrylic, paper collage and object) on canvas · Diptych, 15 × 10 cm each

Temporada — mixed media painting by Ninfa Espinoza — Temporada

2026 · Mixed media (acrylic and paper collage) on canvas · 80 × 80 cm

2025

Tierno Desborde — mixed media painting of a face split between a painted grayscale scream and a photographic child's eye — Tierno Desborde

2025 · Mixed media · 70 × 70 cm

Selected for *Te odio: el odio como estrategia de poder y control político y social*, Centro Cultural de España, Costa Rica, 2025

Transitando en Resiliencia — mixed media painting of a coconut vendor under orange and purple umbrellas — Transitando en Resiliencia

2025 · Mixed media · 100 × 100 cm

Selected for the XXXV National Art Salon, Centro Cultural Sampedrano, 2025

Lazos de niñez al atardecer — mixed media painting — Lazos de niñez al atardecer

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2025 · Mixed media · 80 × 80 cm

Selected for *El Arte y la Paz*, Torre Banpaís, 2025

Serena compañía en la esperanza — mixed media painting — Serena compañía en la esperanza

2025 · Mixed media · 100 × 70 cm

Selected for *El Arte y la Paz*, Torre Banpaís, 2025

2024

Vendedoras de Nances — mixed media painting of street vendors — Vendedoras de Nances

2024 · Mixed media · 90 × 60 cm

Yaxis — mixed media painting — Yaxis

2024 · Mixed media · 60 × 60 cm

Guajacas — mixed media painting — Guajacas

2024 · Mixed media · 100 × 100 cm

XXXIV National Art Salon, Centro Cultural Sampedrano, 2024

2023

Helados en la avenida — painting of an ice cream vendor pushing a cart past pigeons on a city street — Helados en la avenida

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2023 · Mixed media · 70 × 50 cm

Honorable Mention, New Artist — XXXIII National Art Salon, Centro Cultural Sampedrano, 2023

Vida transitoria — mixed media painting — Vida transitoria

2023 · Mixed media · 50 × 40 cm

2020

Downtown at noon — acrylic painting of a city street at midday — Downtown at noon

2020 · Acrylic on canvas · 50 × 70 cm

2019

Buscando la libertad — acrylic painting — Buscando la libertad

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2019 · Acrylic on canvas · 70 × 100 cm

Installation

Estación y camino

2026 · Installation — plastic stools, newspaper, variable spatial arrangement · Variable dimensions

Estación y camino offers a reflection on the invisible dynamics of informal labor and the repetitive journeys that sustain much of urban life.

The installation uses colorful plastic stools —common objects within the Latin American street landscape— as symbols of the street vendor and of the temporary structures that occupy public space every day. Arranged in a row, the stools build a trajectory that evokes the constant movement of the workplace, where each station represents a momentary pause within a routine marked by mobility, waiting and adaptation.

Beneath this path, a road made of newspaper functions as a symbolic surface over which these everyday economies travel. The printed news —a record of political, social and economic conflicts— lies literally beneath the passage of the stools, suggesting how informal labor continues to exist and resist amid the ceaseless flow of events that runs through society.

The piece seeks to make visible labor practices that are frequently normalized or ignored, understanding public space as a place of exchange, survival and collective memory.

Part of Intercambios cotidianos, the artist's first solo exhibition — Centro Cultural Sampedrano, San Pedro Sula, 2026.

Estación y camino — installation view: a line of seven colorful plastic stools on sheets of newspaper, paintings on the gallery wall behind — Installation view

Estación y camino — installation view with the Intercambios cotidianos title wall and the plastic stools arranged on newspaper — Installation view — *Intercambios cotidianos* title wall

About

Ninfa Espinoza seated in her studio in front of two of her paintings

Ninfa Espinoza (b. 1992) is a Honduran visual artist based in San Pedro Sula. In 2026 she completed her studies in Interior Design at CEUTEC. In 2023 she received an Honorable Mention as Revelation Artist at the XXXIII National Art Salon of the Centro Cultural Sampedrano.

In 2026 she presented Intercambios Cotidianos, her first solo exhibition, at the Centro Cultural Sampedrano. Her exhibition history includes participation in group shows at the national and international level, among them TE ODIO — presented in 2025 at the Centro Cultural de España in Costa Rica and in 2026 at the Centro Cultural de España in Tegucigalpa — as well as El Arte y la Paz, presented in 2025 at Torre Banpaís. She has taken part for three consecutive years in the National Art Salon of the Centro Cultural Sampedrano.

Since 2023 she has been a member of the Colectivo de Pintores Sampedranos and, since 2024, of the Asociación de Mujeres Artistas Hondureñas (AMAH), taking part in exhibitions, workshops and artistic training activities.

Her practice explores the relationship between people, everyday life and the spaces they inhabit. Through painting and installation, and using materials such as canvas, paper, plastic, wood and cotton, she addresses experiences linked to labor, affective bonds and urban environments, paying attention to vulnerability, resilience and the ways in which the everyday builds memory and identity.

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Education

2022—26 Centro Universitario Tecnológico (CEUTEC) — Degree in Interior Design
2009—11 Instituto Vocacional de Arte (IVA) — Drawing and Painting

Exhibitions

2026 Intercambios cotidianos — Centro Cultural Sampedrano, San Pedro Sula Solo
2026 Te Odio — Centro Cultural de España, Tegucigalpa, Honduras Group
2026 Esencia de Mujer — Centro Cultural Sampedrano, San Pedro Sula Group
2025 Te Odio — Centro Cultural de España, San José, Costa Rica Group
2025 El Arte y la Paz, AMAH — Torre Banpaís, San Pedro Sula Group
2025 Esencia de Mujer — Centro Cultural Sampedrano, San Pedro Sula Group
2025 XXXV National Art Salon — Centro Cultural Sampedrano Group
2024 XXXIV National Art Salon — Centro Cultural Sampedrano Group
2023 XXXIII National Art Salon — Centro Cultural Sampedrano Group

Awards

2023 Honorable Mention, "New Artist" — XXXIII National Art Salon, Centro Cultural Sampedrano

Workshops

2023 Portfolio, Artistic and Cultural Proposals — Mujeres en las Artes (MUA)

Memberships

Colectivo de Pintores Sampedranos (CPS)
Asociación de Mujeres Artistas Hondureñas (AMAH)

Publications

«Intercambios cotidianos»: Ninfa Espinoza lleva al arte las historias del trabajo informal en San Pedro Sula

Press · ENTER 504 · October 2026

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«Intercambios cotidianos»: el rostro humano de la economía informal a través del arte de Ninfa Espinoza

Press · El Diario · October 2026

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Intercambios cotidianos

Exhibition catalogue · Centro Cultural Sampedrano, San Pedro Sula · 2026

View catalogue

XXXV Salón Nacional de Arte

Group exhibition catalogue · Centro Cultural Sampedrano · 2025

XXXIV Salón Nacional de Arte

Group exhibition catalogue · Centro Cultural Sampedrano · 2024

XXXIII Salón Nacional de Arte

Group exhibition catalogue · Centro Cultural Sampedrano · 2023

Contact

Email

ninfaespinozam@gmail.com

Instagram

@ninfaespinoza_

Based in

San Pedro Sula, Honduras

Painting

2026

Regreso a casa

Amor Para Llevar

Entre carros

Fuera de foco

A través del sol que brilla

Audaz entrega

De la tradición a la venta

El puesto por las vías

Familia en el negocio

Producción y memoria

Sin título I

Bici cargada

En la pasada

En la prisa y lo temporal

Silencio a alta noche

Sin título II

Temporada

2025

Tierno Desborde

Transitando en Resiliencia

Lazos de niñez al atardecer

Serena compañía en la esperanza