Her Story
About Isabella
Isabella Mireles is an art director, gallery owner, and multidisciplinary artist specializing in painting with nearly 10 years of experience in the arts industry. Growing up in Mesquite, Texas, she started her business at a young age and turned her creative spark into a career through self-taught learning and investing in her own knowledge. She built a platform via social media, gained expertise in art fundamentals, personal branding, and gallery management, and ultimately opened her own art gallery with a showroom in the Deep Alum District of Dallas. Her work extends to storytelling and inspiration, including creating a mural for a FIFA nonprofit that reached a national audience. Mireles attributes her success to building community and making an impact, noting that when someone supports her brand they walk out differently. She values staying grounded, having discernment and integrity, maintaining balance and curiosity, and practicing humility and gratitude while continuing to grow. Among the advice she shares with young women is to keep going, rebrand if needed, treat life like a business, and write down goals, emphasizing that people's projections are not your limitations.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Isabella
01What do you attribute your success to?
Honestly, just building a community. I just want to make an impact with my brand. When somebody walks into my showroom or supports my brand, that fulfills me. Knowing that somebody walked into the room and they walked out differently. When you have your own garden, you don't have to go out there and steal somebody else's flowers because you've learned to grow your own garden.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
The best career advice I've gotten was people's projections are not your limitations. We live in a society where they try to put a lot of limits, especially on women, especially young women. It's okay to be unique, it's okay to be different, it's okay to have your own values and your own goals, and your own ambitions. Sometimes it's not your voice, it's your audience. Find people that are passionate and as disciplined as you.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
To just keep going, to not give up. It's okay if they fall down, they can rebrand, they can rebirth, they can restart. Do it right now that they're young, go out there and share your dreams. Try to find a purpose in life, do it for themselves, be okay to be selective with their life, treat life like a business. Take the time to sit down and write those goals and those ambitions. Sometimes the impossible, what we think we can do, we can do, as long as they put their mind to it.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
One of the challenges I see in the art industry is that there is a lot of hidden talent in the world. People try to undervalue those who don't have the same visibility or don't come from a certain environment, or because of their appearance, especially people of color. Sometimes they go more based off connections than based off talent. But as long as you are super obsessed, the most obsessed person is gonna always win. It does not despise talent or where they come from.
05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Staying grounded, having discernment, integrity, continuing to know what is good or bad, follow your rules, create your own rules, having a balance, remaining curious, not losing yourself to fit in other people's shoes. Have humility and gratitude, not stay comfortable, continue growing and building.
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