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Edwin Salas is dedicated to introducing the world of puppetry, theater, and dance to make dark worlds and talk about difficult themes from personal to political. Build Puppets in wood or other materials, teacher of puppetry, puppeteer, writer, dancing, and actor.

In the last 24 years, I have been able to perform in Italy, France, Spain, Switzerland, Poland, Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Belize, Guatemala, the United States, and Taiwan.

Works that are my authorship are Paper Witchcraft: Ecce uovo, Histories of the color of the Earth, Cocorí, Obraztov's Nightmare, Traveling Museum of living beings, Pictures of an exhibition that was made with the Sinaloa symphony orchestra in the 2009, Alicia's Golden Moments, El Circo Flaco, El Arca, Bienaventurados, which was made thanks to the scholarship of scenic creators A 2009 –FONCA-, this same show is selected for “V Encounter of the Performing Arts” 2011 –FONCA- . Works with Kaput Project: Hansel and Gretel, The Falling Love that was made thanks to the support of Eprodanza -INBA-CONACULTA-, was in the Manuel M Ponce room of the Palacio de Bellas Artes and invited on the 30th anniversary of the MEXICO FESTIVAL OF THE HISTORICAL CENTER, Margarita and IL CORPO with the company “Butoh Chilango”

Co-production of the Macbeth of 同黨 劇團 "The Party Theater Group" in Taiwan in 2013, Before the Red, black ant night of Apoc Apoc Dance in 2012, Training for "Laika" by Rodolfo Guerrero, "The Boy and the bull" by Alberto de Leon, Without cinema or with live Puppet cinema, I directed "Los valles de Urikubo" by La Gaviota Teatro.

In 2015, his first book “Direct Action Puppet Mechanisms” came out, which has been sold in many places in America, some places in Europe and Asia.
In 2016 premiere of "Maya Genocide: take and eat the Eucharist of Evil" thanks to Fonca, "Algorithm Peter Pan" with Apoc Apoc dance, FAUSTO co-production Mexico-Colombia.
In 2017 I participated in creating and animating the puppet with which one of the greatest representatives of Butoh in Japan, Taketeru Kudo, made a duet in his show “From Love to Terror”
In 2017, he moved to Asheville North Carolina, where he collaborates with ACDT in three works.
In 2018 he participates in the Fringe Festival, where he receives the “Out of Rules” award, in this same year, he produces the puppets and performs for the ACA play Bugs.
He premieres the play "Seven Deadly Sins in the Border", his first fully produced personal work in the United States, which talks about the border problem. In 2019 he presented this work in Puppeteers of America with great success.
 

In 2020 Edwin did the most personal performance about the murder of his mother, ¨Dracula Killed My Mom¨ took two important awards at the Fringe festival.

Edwin Salas taught the workshop "Political Theater with Puppets" at the O'Neill Theater Center as a guest teacher for the Puppet Conference in 2020.
Right now he is experimenting in the world of multimedia with puppets and animated objects.

Edwin Salas  is working on her visual art project "My Happy Dark Place." Where he mixes the dark humor of Mexico with horror pop art.

Edwin Salas began his adventure in toy art when he arrived in the United States in 2017. As a child growing up in Costa Rica, Edwin did not have the luxury of having toys and relied on his imagination for play. As an adult, he works to rectify this hole in his past by utilizing his creativity to invent toy-art inspired by the pop culture of the many countries he has lived in throughout his life. Edwin has different lines of toys such as “Salas Wars”, “Saddest Children of the Forest”, “Horror Figures” and “Mexican Bootlegs”. In a world overrun with plastic, Edwin utilizes his background as a puppeteer to sculpt toys from wood. His toys have recently been featured by DKE Toys in Comicons around the US. 

He has worked in galleries such as "La Luz de Jesus" in Hollywood, Galeria F in Chicago, or Horse Hero in Asheville. His principal sale place is Marquee Asheville.

 

in 2022 The City of Asheville with project Art in the Heart, give a grant ot build the 12-foot x 4-foot obelisk representing the ancient Vance Monument will be divided into colorful, geometric wooden blocks that the public can use to create fantastical new shapes.

 

In 2023 I earned the degree of Associate in Arts with honors at ABTech Community College. Now it's a student of the University of North Carolina studying a minor in Computer Science and majoring in Digital Media.

In July 2023 teach the course of Political Art with Puppets at Maryland University part of the 66th Puppeteers of America conference. 

In December obtain the Dream Fund from AIGA AVL. 

 In April 2024 the 2024 McCullough Fellow to make a Virtual Reality project with the Museum of Art of Ashevelle and the Department of New Media Unca.

He has a virtual reality installation at the Asheville Art Museum from September 2024 to January 2025, which is called 'The Last Tree of the Forest and the Plastic Bottle' thanks to the collaboration of the UNCA New Media department, McCullough Institute, and the museum. She is producing the show Alice Smile with the UNCA Drama Department.

Continue to create his art toys, block prints, interactive media and puppetry and the same time is full time student at his 50 years old.