Hello.

My name is Onyx Montes.

I’m a social sculptor, writer, and pay transparency advocate.

I am a 2024 recipient of the Artist Creative Fund. Recent projects include launching Tulsa Hidden Heroines in collaboration with the Tulsa Historical Society & Museum, co-producing an educational video for the Frida Kahlo: Timeless exhibition at the Cleve Carney Museum, writing about love and labor for the 2022 regional arts coalition MDW, teaching Critical Thinking & Writing for the Illinois Humanities Odisea Project, designing bilingual distance-learning educational programs for the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, and working as an adjunct lecturer at the Art Institute of Chicago.

I’ve taught art history and Mexican Muralism workshops at two prisons in Mexico, and in 2023 I co-wrote “Creativity is Boundless” an advocacy guide for artist support organizations to make fellowships, grants, and residency programs more accessible to all, regardless of citizenship or immigration status.

In my free time, I enjoy repairing cars and listening to Tom Waits’ records. I’m also a well-traveled person: I’ve been to 20 countries and road-tripped to 9 U.S. States.

More to come.