Zeltzin Nieto Mata, known as Zeltzin Nahual, is a visual and textile artist and seamstress. Of Nahua-Mazatec heritage, she studied art and design at ENES Morelia (UNAM). Her work moves across disciplines such as drawing, illustration, performance, audiovisual media, and music. Independently, she has researched a wide range of traditional and contemporary textile techniques, with particular attention to the study and experimentation with dye plants from Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón and with artisanal practices such as spindle spinning (malacate), embroidery, and backstrap loom weaving, applied to the visual arts.

Being the daughter of Indigenous migrants in the city shaped her line of research and artistic production. For this reason, she builds her work from the perspective of both the Mazatec world and the mestizo world, addressing themes such as Indigenous identity, territory, and the violence exercised against women in contemporary Mexican society.

She currently lives and moves between Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón, Villa de Etla, and Mexico City, places where she also works as a seamstress to generate the resources necessary to continue creating art independently and, at times, in collaboration with other artists.

She has facilitated art workshops primarily for women in various communities in Oaxaca, Michoacán, and Chiapas. In 2024, she directed the documentary Here Live Their Hands, an audiovisual work about the Ngixó huipil (Eloxochitlán de Flores Magón). She has participated in group exhibitions, fairs, and art and textile gatherings in Mexico City, Argentina, Taiwan, the United States, Colombia, and Guatemala.