Veronica Anne Salinas is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, educator, writer, and Deep Listener currently based between Chicago, IL and the Southwest (US). She works at the intersections of art and creative research in sonic arts, ecology, text, film, spatial compositions, and performance.

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

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 an artistic growth 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 is interested in connecting with people and organizations to nurture the growth of listening as social practice.

Veronica has participated as an artist and researcher in various projects including: Reforesters Laboratory, 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, Tallgrass Artist Residency, Experimental Sound Studio, the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain’s Outer Ear Residency, Poor Farm Experiment, and the Vermont Studio Center. She is currently the 2025 Land Management Fellow at The Chinati Foundation.

Veronica is a co-founder and artistic director of Tierras Sonidas//Sonic Rodeo, an annual gathering devoted to experimental sound and art in Marfa, TX, a producer at Campbient, and is on the board of the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology. She studied Deep Listening at the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and holds an MFA in Sound from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
WEATHERING is her solo ambient project and is on the label S/N.