Veronica Anne Salinas is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, writer and Deep Listener based in the Southwest (US). Her work arrives at the intersection of art and creative research in ecology, land stewardship, spatial compositions, performance, text, and video, .

Her interdisciplinary projects explore methods of attunement—to ecologies, to landscape, to memory, to the sonic and to the unseen, noticing what often escapes attention: the slow, deep time, the ephemeral. Her projects are drawn to edges—of environments, identities, systems, weather—and to the poetic and political possibilities they hold.

Her work in land stewardship is rooted in the grasslands of the US, from the prairies of the Midwest to the Chihuahuan Desert. In 2025 she was a Land Management Fellow at The Chinati Foundation and has since worked on projects with the Judd Foundation, Borderlands Research Institute, and with the City of Marfa at Lannan Park.

Her work in sound focuses on soundwalks, field recording, text scores, composition, multichannel audio, improvisation, live performance, and Deep Listening. Veronica’s interest in Deep Listening emerged during a period in Houston, Texas with mentor David Dove and the organization Nameless Sound, formerly the Pauline Oliveros Foundation, Houston. As a dedicated listener and teaching artist, Veronica connects with people and organizations to nurture the growth of listening as social practice. WEATHERING is her ambient project and is on the label S/N.

Veronica has participated as an artist and researcher in various projects including: NMASS Festival, Marfa Public Radio, The STAGE Center at the University of Chicago, Tulsa Artist Fellowship, Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, Experimental Sound Studio, Boyle Labs Art + Ecology, Shaw Prairie, Tablelands Center for Bioregional Art, South Shore Nature Sanctuary, American Religious Sound Project, Cyborg Mestiza: Borderland Feminism Today + Tomorrow, Ragdale Foundation, New Music Gathering, Roman Susan, Oxford American Literary Project, National Museum of Mexican Art, the Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning at Rice University, Lincoln Park Conservatory, Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology, and the Chicago Park District. 

She has held residencies with the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Ragdale Artist Residency, Reforesters Laboratory, Tallgrass Artist Residency, Experimental Sound Studio + Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain’s Outer Ear Residency, Poor Farm Experiment, and the Vermont Studio Center.

Her writing has been featured in Latina Outsiders: Remaking Latina Identity (Routledge, 2019), Instructions for Wayward Walking in Urban Environments, CoLab Feminist Sounding, and has forthcoming text scores in Score-Making: Creative Prompts for Mapping Personal Experience through Sound, edited by Jennie Gottschalk, (Bloomsbury, 2026). Her editorial experience includes serving as managing editor of the archive Nameless: 20 Years of Sound and as a digital editor at Oxford American magazine.

Veronica is a member of CO-OPt Research + Projects, an organizer at Campbient, and a member of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE). She was formerly on the board of directors for the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology and a curator at Tierras Sonidas//Sonic Rodeo, an annual gathering devoted to experimental sound in Marfa, TX.

She studied Deep Listening at the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and earned an MFA in Sound from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently a Texas Leadership Research Scholar pursuing a Ph.D. in Land-Use, Planning, Management, and Design at Texas Tech University.