(Lima, 1980) In her body of work, Ximena Garrido-Lecca examines Peru’s troubled history and explores the cultural impact that has resulted from colonial standards in the wake of globalization processes. The artist observes urban, rural or natural architecture and dwells on spaces where a negotiating materiality between the specific and the universal is visible. The artist takes as a starting point forms of making, organizing and communicating present in current Peruvian culture and executes strategies of appropriation, modification and assembly to question our relationship with the transformation in the specificity of the landscape.

Her solo exhibitions include: “Germinations”, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA; Exchange Value, High Line Plinth, USA; “Inflorescense”, Portikus, Frankfurt; “Redes de Conversión”, 80m2 Livia Benavides Gallery, Lima; 34th Bienal de Sao Paulo “Faz escuro mas eu canto”; “Spectres of Reference”, Orange County Museum of Arts-OCMA, California; “Botanical readings: Erythroxylumcoca”, Proyecto AMIL, Lima; “Native States” at MALBA, Buenos Aires; “Botanical Insurgencies: Phaseolus Lunatus” at SAPS (Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros), Mexico City; “Smoke Architecture” at 80m2 Livia Benavides, Lima; “Toma de tierra” at Casado Santapau, Madrid; “Los Suelos”, MATE (Museo Mario Testino), Lima; Paisaje Antrópico, Max Wigram Gallery, London (2012); a solo project at Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art; “El Porvenir”, Mimmo Scognamiglio Arte Contemporanea, Milan.
Her recent group exhibitions include: BOG 25 Bienal Internacional de Arte y Ciudad, Bogota, Colombia; Sharjah Biennial 16, United Arab Emirates; SITE Santa Fe International, New Mexico, USA; Galería Nordenhake, Mexico City; Madre Museum, Naples; Museo de Arte Lima -MALI, Lima; 34th Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo; Jumex Museum, Mexico City; Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Guadalajara; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart; Art Gallery of Guelph, Ontario; El Espacio 23, Miami; Centre Pompidou at Chengdu; CRACAlsace, AltkirchySALTS, Basel; 26th International Exhibition of Video and Cinema, Milan; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit-MOCAD; 10th Mercosul Biennial: Messages from a New America, Porto Alegre; Museo de Antioquia, Medellín; Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev; Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento, Buenos Aires; Bienal de Cartagena de Indias; The Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum Biennale, Pekín; 12th Bienal de Cuenca; International Biennale of Arezzo; Saatchi Gallery, Londres; among others.