Chris Salas is an artist and educator based in the Great Lakes region of the Midwest. Chris received a BA in Chemistry from Michigan State University and an MFA in Ceramics from Cranbrook Academy of Art. Chris has attended artist residencies at Northern Clay Center, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Starworks Ceramics, Township10, among others. Their artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally at Lynden Sculpture Garden, Milwaukee, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, pocoapoco, Oaxaca, Carthage College, Kenosha, among others. Chris is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Studio Art, Ceramics & Sculpture at Ball State University.

In their current practice, Chris considers the relationship between heritage, memory, material, and material culture. Reckoning these topics across different spans of time, the timeline of their life, the timeline of their family, the timeline of their mexican-american culture, the timeline of rocks, the timeline of evolution. In particular, Chris is considering the historical relationship of corn (maíz) to humanity, and how the simple existence of the plant is a testament to the interconnected and migratory relationships of peoples across the American continents over a 9,000 year timespan.