Ursula Zavala makes art for two places at once. Working as Acidwinzip, a name handed to her by an internet subculture name generator in 2016, she moves between digital collage, painting, textiles, and screen printing with a restless, genre-defiant energy. The work is dense on purpose. Vaporwave color palettes, computer-generated graphics, and traditional media pile up in layers that reward getting close, and under the nostalgia there is a sharp eye for the absurdities of consumer culture.
Art that lives between a browser tab and a gallery.
She grew up on the Southside of San Antonio in a conservative household where art was not exactly the career plan. It found her anyway. After losing a job in 2014 she turned to digital design and fell into the Vaporwave scene, producing album covers that became iconic within the genre. Her first solo exhibition, "File>Save For Web" (2017), made the crossover from screen to wall feel inevitable. A run of shows followed in 2021: "It's Not Fun Anymore," "Reforma," and "All of the Traces Left Behind" with Taylor Galvan, and she has shown at Centro de Artes in "A Postmodernist Says Que?" That same year she co-founded Not For You Gallery (N4U) with Edward Perez at the Blue Star Arts Complex, two Southside artists building a space on their own terms. The San Antonio Current and Glasstire have both taken notice.
At Hopscotch San Antonio she held the featured gallery from April 22 through October 13, 2026. It was the hometown show: a Southside native in a San Antonio gallery, with work that started life online and crossed into physical space, which is not a bad description of Hopscotch itself. It was a hallway to slow down in. Up close, the layers kept unfolding.
The name Acidwinzip came from an algorithm. Letting a machine name you is about as Vaporwave as it gets.
