Selva Zafiro Luna

Interdisciplinary Visual Artist and Teaching Artist

2025 Make a Wave

Visual Arts

Selva Zafiro Luna (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. Their practice integrates print media, garment design, word and symbol to highlight queer opulence. As an educator they've worked in public schools across Chicago for more than a decade.

They are currently the artist in residence at the National Museum of Mexican Arts' Nuestras Historias Residency, where they collaborate with eight different teachers across CPS to create and lead an arts integration curriculum. Selva also is co-founder of Marimacha Monarcha Press, a collective of artists and educators, queer and trans creatives and workshop leaders with rasquachismo practices, printing, and publications for and by the hood.

Selva Zafiro Luna's Website

Featured Artworks

A screen printed illustration of a lizard like creature with axolotls features. The print is green with yellow and pink lines to highlight areas of the creature.

Axolotl : home + body as sanctuary, 2024 Screen print Image by Selva Zafrino Luna

Cuerno al Cielo, 2023 Screen print Image by Selva Zafrino Luna

A block print of a cactus plant with a birds next perched on top. The cactus is green with a little orange. There are two birds in the nest.

Chuparosas : casita safica, 2024 Lino block print Image by Selva Zafrino Luna

Polynate, 2025 Screen Print Image by Selva Zafrino Luna

A block print on yellow paper. On one side there is the head of an ancient lion statue holding gaze with a Native individual. They are surrounded by snake like creatures which frame the print in green and red.

Queer Gaze as Time Travel, 2019 Lino block print Image by Selva Zafrino Luna

A silkscreen print on grey paper of a pink snake leaving a trail of slime that reads "Transplantas"

TRANSplantas (collaboration with Sarita Hernandez), 2024 Silkscreen Image by Selva Zafrino Luna