Nico Salazar is an artist, illustrator, and designer from Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the creator of Future Fantasy Delight a bold, black-and-white, linework-driven universe where New Mexican iconography, manga, street fashion, and 90s/Y2K nostalgia meet.

Raised between Santa Fe, NM, Oxnard, California, and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Nico grew up collecting a strange mix of visual references that never really left his psyche: adobe skylines, palm trees, early-morning anime, chola cousins, rave flyers, comic books, video games, fashion magazines, and weird little toys from the corner store.

Working in almost exclusively in black ink, building intricate worlds packed with tough yet tender characters who exist in the futuristic southwest, cyber cafes, capsule motels, cyber deserts, creating often densely detailed compositions filled with glamour, folklore, and fashion-forward weirdness, where a mix of futurism and Chicano mythologies take center stage.  

Nico started Future Fantasy Delight while earning his BFA in Illustration from the Institute of American Indian Arts in 2014. What began as a conceptual product design project eventually escaped the classroom and became its own little universe, expanding into clothing, objects, murals, installations, and immersive spaces.

He has since created installations with Meow Wolf, including the infamous mural room : Hidden Capsule in Santa Fe, The Slurp Zone in Las Vegas, Mijo Miho Cybercafe in Denver, and Hidden Capsule Motel in Dallas.

His work has made its way from the desert to Los Angeles, Tokyo, Las Vegas, New York, Denver, Chicago, and Miami and Future Fantasy Delight is still expanding.