Victor Hugo Enriquez
Fine Artist and Muralist
Victor Hugo Enriquez is a multi-disciplinary artist and combat veteran whose practice distills the experience of living in the tension between cultures and filters it through the lens of faith.
His work is deeply informed by his upbringing in Chicago and Northern Mexico, the impact of his mother's schizophrenia, and his combat deployments as a United States Marine to Afghanistan. After years of struggling with his own mental health, culminating in a suicide attempt, Victor found hope and stability through studying Polyvagal Theory and Trauma-informed psychology, the arts, and ultimately found healing after turning to Christ in 2024.
Now a student at Columbia College, Victor is dedicated to using his testimony and artistic practice to elevate the name of Jesus, exploring themes of psychological resilience, cultural identity, and spiritual transformation.
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Victor Hugo Enriquez is a multi-disciplinary artist and combat veteran whose practice distills the experience of living in the tension between cultures, and filters it through the lens of faith.
His work is deeply informed by his upbringing in Chicago and Northern Mexico, the impact of his mother's schizophrenia, and his subsequent combat deployments as a United States Marine in Afghanistan.
After years of struggling with his own mental health, culminating in a suicide attempt, Victor found hope and stability through the studying psychology, arts, primarily oil painting, and ultimately found healing after turning to Christ in 2024.
Now a student at Columbia College, Victor is dedicated to using his testimony and artistic practice to elevate the name of Jesus, exploring themes of psychological resilience, cultural identity, and spiritual transformation.
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Not like I’ve seen some people who started when they were very young and kept with it.
I had a taste in first and fifth grade, but it wasn’t until 2017 that someone saw that it would help me. She gave me her art supplies from her time at SAIC and Brown University, and I haven’t stopped painting since.
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Not at all. There were a lot of struggles in the beginning where I did have to rely on trial and error, but after a couple years of struggling on my own I started to seek mentors.
I have received training (in chronological order) from:
Kristy Gordon, Clive Bryant, Todd Casey, the Dutch Atelier of Realist Art (DARA); Kevin Müller-Cisneros, Scott Waddell and Ananda St. Barry of Grand Central Atelier, and Teresa Oaxaca.
Currently, I am pursuing a BFA at Columbia College Chicago
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I’m going to be pretentious and say there is an art to living that definitely feeds my practice, but my foundation—the undercurrent of my approach to life is an exploration of “Who is Christ alive in Victor Hugo Enriquez?”
I’ve been a US Marine, a therapist, a tradesman, a comedian; I’m an uncle, a brother, a son and it’s all in service to sharing love, mercy, forgiveness, and redemption that’s most poignantly exemplified in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.
