Biography - Enrique Flores Gonzalez was born in 1963 in the Oaxaca village of Huitzo. He studied painting and printmaking under Juan Alcazar, at the Taller Libre de Grafica, in Oaxaca.  Enrique passed away on June 2nd, 2026
Exhibitions - Flores participated in group shows in Mexico, El Salvador, San Diego, Missoula, Montana and Philadelphia, PA, as well as solo shows throughout Mexico. In 1990 his work was included in a group show of Oaxaca artists, "Life, Legend and Dreams", which opened at the University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson and toured to the Heard Museum in Phoenix, as well to California. He illustrated the 1995 book, The Harvest Birds, for Children's Book Press.  

Enrique was one of the first Oaxacan painters and printmakers that we showed at Indigo Gallery, beginning in 1989. Though he became a master printmaker, whose taller (print workshop) in Huitzo produced the work of the greatest artist of his era, his own paintings and prints always retained the sweetness, even a naïveté, which they showed when he was an artist in his twenties. 
Nancy Mayagoitia, founder of the Arte de Oaxaca gallery, and a long time champion of Enrique’s work, shared the news: 
“The list of positive adjectives that could describe his life and work is long.

Unwavering integrity, passion for his work, devotion to his family, intensity in his research, powerful expression, personal simplicity, sincerity in his smile, and friendship.

His life brought us color, so much color in his paintings and engravings that will forever remain in our memory.

In the end, his heart gave out as a consequence of diabetes.

We will write many pages with the memories and lessons left to us by one of the best friends that art in Oaxaca has ever had. 
Rest in peace“