Niki Aguirre is a fine art and conceptual visual artist guided by mood-driven narrative, creating cinematic imagery that explores the shifting space between reality and imagination. Her work renders dreamlike moments that feel suspended in time—quiet, emotionally charged, and rooted in her inner world.

She rose locally through a self-portrait 365 project in 2010—an intensive year of daily creation that became a springboard into collaborative work in theater, independent film, and fashion, photographing a wide range of artists and creatives along the way.

Her cinematic and emotionally charged imagery first found an audience during the golden era of Google+, where she became part of a vibrant community of emerging and established photographers. She rapidly grew a following of over 30,000 and was included in the Plus One Collection book series—published across three volumes celebrating global photographic talent. Her work was also selected by editors of Vogue Italia for PhotoVogue, a curated digital platform highlighting emerging visual artists. This early momentum helped propel her work into a wider sphere of features and creative commissions. During this season, she was also featured on Thomas Hawk’s curated list of photographers on Facebook—shared with his own audience of over 200,000 at the time—at a moment when visual storytelling was rapidly evolving across digital platforms.

One of her creative highlights came just prior to her stepping away from public creative work: being selected for Ron Howard’s Project Imaginat10n, a national campaign celebrating photography as a gateway to cinematic storytelling.

Soon after the birth of her first daughter, Niki began to withdraw from the world of art to devote herself to motherhood. During this time, her creative process turned inward—deepening through observation, ritual, and spiritual growth.

Though her formal education is in the sciences, Niki's artistic path emerged from a drive to translate emotion, memory, and spiritual tension into visual form. Her background in biology continues to inform her work—not through subject matter, but through process: an experimental lens, an instinct for systems, and a reverence for the unseen connections between elements.

Her return to art is marked by a deep longing—balancing the sacred tasks of motherhood with the quiet calling to create. Her work carries the weight of pause and presence, and the momentum of something long-held and finally released.

Her work spans both photography and AI artistry, crafting cinematic, emotionally resonant images that evoke stillness and dissonance. She brings a multidisciplinary sensibility to her practice, drawing on a background that includes illustration, music, and visual storytelling.

She lives and creates in Texas.