Ximena Garrido-Lecca lives and works between Mexico City and Lima. She studied Fine Art at Universidad Católica del Perú and earned an MA from the Byam Shaw School of Art in London. Through her practice, she uses a variety of symbolic materials and languages to highlight the tensions between ancestral knowledge and colonial structures. Using historical references and her own observations, she traces cycles of cultural, social, and economic transformation and distillations of power and resistance related to natural resource use. Her work examines the relationships between nature and culture while questioning traditional hierarchies of knowledge.

Her solo institutional and gallery exhibitions include: Renaissance Society, Chicago; CAN, Neuchâtel; Portikus, Frankfurt; Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne; 34th Bienal de São Paulo; OCMA, California; Proyecto AMIL, Lima; Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo; MALBA, Buenos Aires; SAPS, Mexico City; 80m2 Livia Benavides, Lima; MATE, Lima; Max Wigram Gallery, London; and MIMA, Middlesbrough.

She has participated in numerous museum group exhibitions and biennials, including the 12th Site Santa Fe International in New Mexico; the 16th Sharjah Biennial; the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennial; the 24th Bienal Paíz in Guatemala City and Antigua; JCAF in Johannesburg; Museo Diego Rivera in Guadalajara; MARCO Museum in Monterrey; Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne; Madre Museum in Naples; MALI in Lima; Jumex Museum in Mexico City; Museo de Arte de Zapopan in Guadalajara; Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart; El Espacio 23 in Miami; Centre Pompidou in Chengdu; Turner Contemporary in Kent; CRAC Alsace in Altkirch; SALTS in Basel; Frac des Pays de la Loire in Carquefou; MOCAD in Detroit; the 10th Mercosul Biennial in Porto Alegre; MDE15 at Museo de Antioquia in Medellín; Pinchuk Art Centre in Kiev; Bienal de Cartagena de Indias; The Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum Biennale in Beijing; the 12th Cuenca Bienal; Saatchi Gallery in London; and The Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide.