Salón Silicón, Mexico City

About Salón Silicón

Tucked behind a glass storefront on Tehuantepec in Roma Sur, this is the gallery you send out-of-town friends to when they want a read on what LGBTQ+ and feminist artists in CDMX are actually making right now. The space relocated south from its original Escandón home — a former beauty salon — and has settled into a tighter, more intimate room that programs roughly a dozen shows a year alongside artist talks, book launches, and closing parties that double as social events for the local jotería art scene. Olga Rodríguez, Romeo Gómez López, and Laos Salazar founded it in late 2017 with a roster younger, more female-led, and more LGBTQ+ than the city's blue-chip galleries — and pricing the work so people who actually live in the neighborhood can collect. There's a small shop with editions, zines, and merch, and the tagline ¡Viva la jotilencia! pretty much tells you the editorial line.