Rita Ponce de León
Bio/CV
Available works
Rita Ponce de León
Rita Ponce de León
Rita Ponce de Leon (Lima, 1982) lives and works in Mexico City.
She recently 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 the movement of the body to give rise to a certain type of wisdom and collective knowledge. She pours this diversity of experiences into drawings to share them in the form of visual essays.
Rita‘s work has been exhibited at the Aichi Triennale in Nagoya, Japan (2022); at the 32nd São Paulo Biennial, Brazil (2016); in the village of San Simón Ticumac, Mexico (2021); at the Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2014); at proyectoamil, Lima, Peru (2017); at the gallery 80M2 Livia Benavides, Lima, Peru; at the Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros; Mexico (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.
She recently 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 the movement of the body to give rise to a certain type of wisdom and collective knowledge. She pours this diversity of experiences into drawings to share them in the form of visual essays.
Rita‘s work has been exhibited at the Aichi Triennale in Nagoya, Japan (2022); at the 32nd São Paulo Biennial, Brazil (2016); in the village of San Simón Ticumac, Mexico (2021); at the Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2014); at proyectoamil, Lima, Peru (2017); at the gallery 80M2 Livia Benavides, Lima, Peru; at the Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros; Mexico (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.
Bio/CV
Rita Ponce de León
Rita Ponce de Leon (Lima, 1982) lives and works in Mexico City.
She recently 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 the movement of the body to give rise to a certain type of wisdom and collective knowledge. She pours this diversity of experiences into drawings to share them in the form of visual essays.
Rita‘s work has been exhibited at the Aichi Triennale in Nagoya, Japan (2022); at the 32nd São Paulo Biennial, Brazil (2016); in the village of San Simón Ticumac, Mexico (2021); at the Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2014); at proyectoamil, Lima, Peru (2017); at the gallery 80M2 Livia Benavides, Lima, Peru; at the Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros; Mexico (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 fellowship of Jovenes Creadores (Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes). In 2014, she received the support of Fundación Japón to make a series of workshops, concerts and an exhibition by an artist from Tokyo, Chikara Matsumoto. In 2016, she was awarded the fellowship of the Fundación Jumex 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:JPMorgan Chase Art Collection & Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI). Her work has been recently published in Phaidon’s “Latin American Artists: From 1785 to Now”, 2023.
Her images have been published in Vitamin D2 New Perspectives in Drawing (Phaidon, 2013). She is a fellow of the National System of Art Creators (FONCA, Mexico), which allows her to develop a project with the residents of the original town of San Simón Ticumac, in Mexico City. She currently colaborates with Tania Solomonoff (coreographer, dancer and therapist), Andrés Villalobos (visual artist and editor), Primal (transdisciplinary studio), Esthel Vogrig (expanded coreography, video, education), Andrea Ancira (writer, researcher and editor) and Esparta Martínez (dancer and Kamishibai Japanese Street Theater editor).
She recently 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 the movement of the body to give rise to a certain type of wisdom and collective knowledge. She pours this diversity of experiences into drawings to share them in the form of visual essays.
Rita‘s work has been exhibited at the Aichi Triennale in Nagoya, Japan (2022); at the 32nd São Paulo Biennial, Brazil (2016); in the village of San Simón Ticumac, Mexico (2021); at the Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2014); at proyectoamil, Lima, Peru (2017); at the gallery 80M2 Livia Benavides, Lima, Peru; at the Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros; Mexico (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 fellowship of Jovenes Creadores (Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes). In 2014, she received the support of Fundación Japón to make a series of workshops, concerts and an exhibition by an artist from Tokyo, Chikara Matsumoto. In 2016, she was awarded the fellowship of the Fundación Jumex 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:JPMorgan Chase Art Collection & Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI). Her work has been recently published in Phaidon’s “Latin American Artists: From 1785 to Now”, 2023.
Her images have been published in Vitamin D2 New Perspectives in Drawing (Phaidon, 2013). She is a fellow of the National System of Art Creators (FONCA, Mexico), which allows her to develop a project with the residents of the original town of San Simón Ticumac, in Mexico City. She currently colaborates with Tania Solomonoff (coreographer, dancer and therapist), Andrés Villalobos (visual artist and editor), Primal (transdisciplinary studio), Esthel Vogrig (expanded coreography, video, education), Andrea Ancira (writer, researcher and editor) and Esparta Martínez (dancer and Kamishibai Japanese Street Theater editor).
Available works
“I did this to see how I walk among the trails”, 2025
56 x 46.3 cm
Paper collage with ink and colored pencil
“I did this to see how I am flesh, bone and relationships”, 2025
39 x 37 cm
Paper collage with ink and colored pencil
“I received an advice from the bird, another from water, another from sunbeam”, 2024
55.8 x 47 cm
Paper collage with ink and colored pencil
“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
Rita Ponce de León
Rita Ponce de Leon (Lima, 1982) lives and works in Mexico City.
She recently 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 the movement of the body to give rise to a certain type of wisdom and collective knowledge. She pours this diversity of experiences into drawings to share them in the form of visual essays.
Rita‘s work has been exhibited at the Aichi Triennale in Nagoya, Japan (2022); at the 32nd São Paulo Biennial, Brazil (2016); in the village of San Simón Ticumac, Mexico (2021); at the Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2014); at proyectoamil, Lima, Peru (2017); at the gallery 80M2 Livia Benavides, Lima, Peru; at the Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros; Mexico (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.
She recently 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 the movement of the body to give rise to a certain type of wisdom and collective knowledge. She pours this diversity of experiences into drawings to share them in the form of visual essays.
Rita‘s work has been exhibited at the Aichi Triennale in Nagoya, Japan (2022); at the 32nd São Paulo Biennial, Brazil (2016); in the village of San Simón Ticumac, Mexico (2021); at the Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2014); at proyectoamil, Lima, Peru (2017); at the gallery 80M2 Livia Benavides, Lima, Peru; at the Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros; Mexico (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.
Rita Ponce de León
Rita Ponce de Leon (Lima, 1982) lives and works in Mexico City.
She recently 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 the movement of the body to give rise to a certain type of wisdom and collective knowledge. She pours this diversity of experiences into drawings to share them in the form of visual essays.
Rita‘s work has been exhibited at the Aichi Triennale in Nagoya, Japan (2022); at the 32nd São Paulo Biennial, Brazil (2016); in the village of San Simón Ticumac, Mexico (2021); at the Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2014); at proyectoamil, Lima, Peru (2017); at the gallery 80M2 Livia Benavides, Lima, Peru; at the Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros; Mexico (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 fellowship of Jovenes Creadores (Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes). In 2014, she received the support of Fundación Japón to make a series of workshops, concerts and an exhibition by an artist from Tokyo, Chikara Matsumoto. In 2016, she was awarded the fellowship of the Fundación Jumex 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:JPMorgan Chase Art Collection & Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI). Her work has been recently published in Phaidon’s “Latin American Artists: From 1785 to Now”, 2023.
Her images have been published in Vitamin D2 New Perspectives in Drawing (Phaidon, 2013). She is a fellow of the National System of Art Creators (FONCA, Mexico), which allows her to develop a project with the residents of the original town of San Simón Ticumac, in Mexico City. She currently colaborates with Tania Solomonoff (coreographer, dancer and therapist), Andrés Villalobos (visual artist and editor), Primal (transdisciplinary studio), Esthel Vogrig (expanded coreography, video, education), Andrea Ancira (writer, researcher and editor) and Esparta Martínez (dancer and Kamishibai Japanese Street Theater editor).
She recently 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 the movement of the body to give rise to a certain type of wisdom and collective knowledge. She pours this diversity of experiences into drawings to share them in the form of visual essays.
Rita‘s work has been exhibited at the Aichi Triennale in Nagoya, Japan (2022); at the 32nd São Paulo Biennial, Brazil (2016); in the village of San Simón Ticumac, Mexico (2021); at the Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2014); at proyectoamil, Lima, Peru (2017); at the gallery 80M2 Livia Benavides, Lima, Peru; at the Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros; Mexico (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 fellowship of Jovenes Creadores (Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes). In 2014, she received the support of Fundación Japón to make a series of workshops, concerts and an exhibition by an artist from Tokyo, Chikara Matsumoto. In 2016, she was awarded the fellowship of the Fundación Jumex 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:JPMorgan Chase Art Collection & Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI). Her work has been recently published in Phaidon’s “Latin American Artists: From 1785 to Now”, 2023.
Her images have been published in Vitamin D2 New Perspectives in Drawing (Phaidon, 2013). She is a fellow of the National System of Art Creators (FONCA, Mexico), which allows her to develop a project with the residents of the original town of San Simón Ticumac, in Mexico City. She currently colaborates with Tania Solomonoff (coreographer, dancer and therapist), Andrés Villalobos (visual artist and editor), Primal (transdisciplinary studio), Esthel Vogrig (expanded coreography, video, education), Andrea Ancira (writer, researcher and editor) and Esparta Martínez (dancer and Kamishibai Japanese Street Theater editor).
“I did this to see how I walk among the trails”, 2025
56 x 46.3 cm
Paper collage with ink and colored pencil
“I did this to see how I am flesh, bone and relationships”, 2025
39 x 37 cm
Paper collage with ink and colored pencil
“I received an advice from the bird, another from water, another from sunbeam”, 2024
55.8 x 47 cm
Paper collage with ink and colored pencil
“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