Rita Ponce de León
Bio/CV
Available works
Rita Ponce de León
Rita Ponce de León
Rita Ponce de León (b. 1982, Lima, Peru) lives and works in Mexico City. 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.
Bio/CV
Rita Ponce de León
Her recent group exhibitions include “El gesto y lo invisible”, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2026); “Histórias da ecologia”, Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo (2025–2026); Aichi Triennale, Nagoya, Japan (2022); the 32nd São Paulo Biennial, Brazil (2016); “Sights and Sounds”, The Jewish Museum, New York (2014); and “The Ungovernables”, New Museum Triennial, New York (2012); among others. Rita’s solo exhibitions include “Niño”, Livia Benavides Gallery, Lima (2024); Proyecto AMIL, Lima (2017); “Con tus propias manos”, Espai 13, Fundació Miró, Barcelona (2014); “Endless Openness Produces Circles”, Kunsthalle Basel (2014); and “David”, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City (2012); among others.
Her works are included in public collections such as the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection and Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), Lima. Her work was recently published in Phaidon’s Latin American Artists: From 1785 to Now (2023), and her images have been published in Vitamin D2: New Perspectives in Drawing (2013).
She was awarded the Jóvenes Creadores fellowship, Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (FONCA) (2012); and the Fundación Jumex fellowship for a research trip on butoh dance and drawing at the Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio, Yokohama, Japan (2016).
Her works are included in public collections such as the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection and Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), Lima. Her work was recently published in Phaidon’s Latin American Artists: From 1785 to Now (2023), and her images have been published in Vitamin D2: New Perspectives in Drawing (2013).
She was awarded the Jóvenes Creadores fellowship, Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (FONCA) (2012); and the Fundación Jumex fellowship for a research trip on butoh dance and drawing at the Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio, Yokohama, Japan (2016).
Available works
“I did this to see how I am flesh, bone and relationships”, 2025
39 x 37 cm
Paper collage with ink and colored pencil
Rita Ponce de León
Rita Ponce de León (b. 1982, Lima, Peru) lives and works in Mexico City. 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 Ponce de León
Her recent group exhibitions include “El gesto y lo invisible”, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2026); “Histórias da ecologia”, Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), São Paulo (2025–2026); Aichi Triennale, Nagoya, Japan (2022); the 32nd São Paulo Biennial, Brazil (2016); “Sights and Sounds”, The Jewish Museum, New York (2014); and “The Ungovernables”, New Museum Triennial, New York (2012); among others. Rita’s solo exhibitions include “Niño”, Livia Benavides Gallery, Lima (2024); Proyecto AMIL, Lima (2017); “Con tus propias manos”, Espai 13, Fundació Miró, Barcelona (2014); “Endless Openness Produces Circles”, Kunsthalle Basel (2014); and “David”, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City (2012); among others.
Her works are included in public collections such as the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection and Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), Lima. Her work was recently published in Phaidon’s Latin American Artists: From 1785 to Now (2023), and her images have been published in Vitamin D2: New Perspectives in Drawing (2013).
She was awarded the Jóvenes Creadores fellowship, Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (FONCA) (2012); and the Fundación Jumex fellowship for a research trip on butoh dance and drawing at the Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio, Yokohama, Japan (2016).
Her works are included in public collections such as the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection and Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), Lima. Her work was recently published in Phaidon’s Latin American Artists: From 1785 to Now (2023), and her images have been published in Vitamin D2: New Perspectives in Drawing (2013).
She was awarded the Jóvenes Creadores fellowship, Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (FONCA) (2012); and the Fundación Jumex fellowship for a research trip on butoh dance and drawing at the Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio, Yokohama, Japan (2016).
“I did this to see how I am flesh, bone and relationships”, 2025
39 x 37 cm
Paper collage with ink and colored pencil