Born in Mexico City in 1979, Mauricio Limón de León currently lives and works in Mexico City. His education includes studies in Visual Arts at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, as well as residencies at institutions such as the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (Amsterdam, class of 2016-2017), Fondation Fiminco (Paris), Casa Wabi (Puerto Escondido), and Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. He has been awarded important grants such as the FONCA Young Creators Grant and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and has been nominated for the Victor Pinchuk Foundation's Future Generation Art Prize. His work has been exhibited in museums and institutions both nationally and internationally: Museo Cabañas in Guadalajara (“Memoria Ciega,” 2023-2024), Museo Universitario del Chopo in Mexico City (2013 and 2019), Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Eye Museum (Amsterdam), KunstMuseum Bonn, CA2M in Madrid, Museo Tamayo, Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City, among others. He also participates in galleries such as Ellen de Bruijne Projects (Amsterdam), Pequod.CO (Mexico City), Wild-Palms (Düsseldorf), Galería Hilario Galguera, Y-Gallery in New York, and emerging spaces. Limón de León's practice encompasses various media—painting, video, installation, performance, sculpture, graphics, and objects—and his themes revolve around identity, cultural representation, satire, memory, stereotypes of power, and the social dynamics between the formal and the informal. In his exhibition Memoria Ciega (Blind Memory), he developed a corpus of 35 masks carved in wood, paintings, engravings, and objects in collaboration with Wixárika artisans, exploring the mask as a symbol of Mexican carnival, syncretism, and post-colonial legacy, while investigating forms of visualization of the body, ritual objects, and tensions between the vernacular and its global commercialization.