BIO
Born in Mexico City 1979, Lives and works in CDMX.
Mauricio Limón de León is a multidisciplinary artist. His practice encompasses painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, performance, and video, articulating an artistic language where satire, critical reflection, and humor converge.
His work explores fundamental themes of the contemporary condition—identity, politics, culture, and power dynamics—with a particular focus on issues of ethnology, urbanity, and sexuality. His methodology incorporates collaborative research influenced by psychoanalysis, maintaining a long-term commitment to communities and individuals living on the margins of society. The resilience, creativity, and knowledge that emerge from these spaces constitute a central source of inspiration for his creative process.
His work has been exhibited at prominent national and international institutions, such as the Jumex Museum, the Cabañas Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Tamayo Museum, the Chopo University Museum and the Carrillo Gil Art Museum, in Mexico; the San Francisco Art Institute, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art , the KunstMuseum Bonn in Germany and Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M), Spain. His work is included in collections such as those of the Carrillo Gil Art Museum, the University Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Print Department of the Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf, among others.
He is a former resident of the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam (2016–2017) and was a finalist for the Future Generation Art Prize, awarded by the Pinchuk Foundation. Among the grants and awards he has received are those from FONCA and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. He has completed artist residencies at the Cité Internationale des Arts and the Fondation Fiminco in Paris, as well as at Casa Gallina and Casa Wabi in Mexico.