Rita Ponce de León

Rita Ponce de Leon (Lima, 1982) lives and works in Mexico City.

Current exhibitions include El gesto y lo invisible at Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (February 6, 2026 – July 26, 2026), and recent exhibitions include Histories of Ecology at Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP), São Paulo (September 2025 – February 2026).

Rita Ponce de León

She graduated from a study program on psycho-corporal techniques proposed by the Argentinean organization Río Abierto. Rita understands her work as a way to get involved in situations that, through a focus on learning and participation, lead her to the recognition of a substantially “bond-centering” world, where even ephemeral encounters are potentially meaningful. For this, the intuitive approach that the body provides clears her path. She keeps close to practices such as butoh dance and Aikido, and she often participates in workshops that promote bodily movement as a means to generate a certain type of wisdom and collective knowledge. She pours this diversity of experiences into drawings, which she shares in the form of visual essays.

Rita’s work has been exhibited at the Aichi Triennale, Nagoya, Japan (2022); the 32nd São Paulo Biennial, Brazil (2016); in the village of San Simón Ticumac, Mexico (2021); Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2014); proyectoamil, Lima, Peru (2017); 80M2 Livia Benavides Gallery, Lima, Peru; and Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City (2013), among others. Her images have been published in Vitamin D2: New Perspectives in Drawing (2013). She collaborates recurrently with Joelle Gruenberg, Yaxkin Melchy, Tania Solomonoff, and Esthel Vogrig.

In 2013, she won the Jóvenes Creadores fellowship (Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes). In 2014, she received support from Fundación Japón to develop a series of workshops, concerts, and an exhibition with Tokyo- based artist Chikara Matsumoto. In 2016, she was awarded a Fundación Jumex fellowship for a research trip on butoh dance and drawing at the Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio in Yokohama, Japan.

Her works are included in public collections such as the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection and Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI). Also her work was recently published in Phaidon’s Latin American Artists: From 1785 to Now (2023).

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Las recién nacidas, 2025
157 x 137 cm
Ink collage on paper
“A shattered world, a world one II”, (2025)
136 x 210 cm
Ink collage on paper
“A shattered world, a world one (waterfall)”, (2025)
210 x 165 cm
Ink collage on paper
“I did this to see how I am flesh, bone and relationships”, 2025
39 x 37 cm
Paper collage with ink and colored pencil
“In perpetual free fall”, 2024
56 x 46.3 cm
Paper collage with ink and colored pencil
“I did this to see how I walk among the trails”, 2025
56 x 46.3 cm
Paper collage with ink and colored pencil
“Poem of a place to return to”, 2025
55.8 x 47 cm
Paper collage with ink and colored pencil
“Clay and water letter”, 2025
39 x 37 cm
Paper collage with ink and colored pencil
“Seed – Writing II”, 2024
90 x 131 cm
Ink and coloured pencil on paper
“Fascia – Swarm”, 2024
45 x 50 cm
Ink and coloured pencil on paper
“I Draw”, 2024
45 x 50 cm
Ink and coloured pencil on paper
“Rain Women”, 2024
45 x 50 cm
Ink and coloured pencil on paper
“Lifted up when it hurt inside”, 2023
29 x 20 cm
Ink and colored pencil on rice paper
“Lifted up”, 2023
20 x 29 cm
Ink and colored pencil on rice paper
“Flower and I”, 2024
20 x 29 cm
Ink and colored pencil on rice paper
“Still she blooms”, 2024
20 x 29 cm
Ink and colored pencil on rice paper
“Black-eyed Susan bloomed”, 2024
20 x 29 cm
Ink and colored pencil on rice paper
“Sun, flowers, fire, poop”, 2023
114 x 100 cm
Ink, colored pencil and gouache on paper
“Unhinged”, 2023
27 x 24 cm
Ink and colored pencil on paper
“Flowers flame”, 2023
34 x 31 cm
Ink, colored pencil and gouache on paper
“Sun rain”, 2023
27 x 24 cm
Ink and colored pencil on paper
“Portrait ruin”, 2023
24 x 27.2 cm
Ink and colored pencil on paper
“Las Pérez on the Churubusco River”, 2020
34 x 35 cm
Ink and color pencil on paper
“María Elena and the mud”, 2020
36 x 36.5 cm
Ink and color pencil on paper
“While you look at us, you take control. We are a feeting image”, 2019
22.8 x 29.5 cm
Ink and color pencil on paper
“Ir por la vida a favor de la vida [Go about life in favor of life]”, 2020
25 x 26 cm
Color pencil on paper
“Para el aire”, 2020
20 x 14 cm
Colored pencil on cotton paper
“Gratitud”, 2020
14 x 20 cm
Colored pencil on cotton paper

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