About Magda

Magda Leon, a Guatemalan-born multidisciplinary artist currently residing in Providence, RI, specializes in printmaking, installation art, and social practice art. She discovered her love for creativity while drawing on her grandmother's kitchen floor as a child. Her work stems from a personal experience of living with a bicultural identity, which she cariñosamente refers to as 'De aquí y de allá' (From here and from there). Leon graduated from the Community College of Rhode Island with an Associate's degree in Social Work in 2002 and earned her BA in Printmaking from Rhode Island College in 2021. She is currently pursuing her MFA from MassArt, graduating in the spring of 2024. Recently, she was commissioned to create a series of murals depicting the immigrant experience for Aguardente restaurant. Details of this work were published in RIC magazine under the title “The In-Between World: The Art of Magda Léon”. Additionally, she has an upcoming publication in Mujerista Magazine and a solo exhibition at Chalkstone Supermarket in Providence, RI.