Estephanie Jaime (Lima, Peru, 1989), known professionally as Salima Black, holds a Bachelor's degree in Painting from the Escuela Nacional Superior Autónoma de Bellas Artes del Perú (ENSABAP).
In 2020, she completed advanced online realist painting courses with Japanese artist Keita Morimoto at Morimoto Studio in Toronto, Canada
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She has held four solo exhibitions and participated in various group shows in Lima, as well as in the United States represented by Arton Gallery as well as in Germany and the United Kingdom.
Additionally, she was selected twice for the “2 Generations” National Drawing Contest organized by the British Cultural Center in 2018 and 2024.
Her work reinterprets imagery inspired by figuration and the japanese pop culture aesthetics of 1980s and 1990s. Anime, commercials, and music videos take on a new expansive purpose, creating a utopian and nostalgic universe that suggests an escape from reality.
Her paintings combine flat and volumetric forms, exploring the duality between calm and chaos. Through solitary characters human or visceral subjugated beneath a vast blue sky, she constructs ironic settings where beauty and melancholy coexist.