Maximiliano León is a Mexican artist based in Vienna whose practice engages with identity, cultural exchange, historical memory and the construction of narratives through painting. Educated in Mexico and Vienna, including under Daniel Richter at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, León moves between Mexican and European references. His work often treats images, figures and objects as fragments through which personal and collective histories can be reconstructed. INSTITUTIONAL / CURATORIAL HIGHLIGHTS • Mädchen* sein!? Vom Tafelbild zu Social Media — Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, 2025 • If I remember correctly — Splace, Kunstuniversität Linz, 2026 • Show Show — Splace, Kunstuniversität Linz, 2025 • Maximiliano León: Artes plásticas — Austrian Cultural Forum, Mexico City, 2020 • EDITA: Selfpublishing Practices in Contemporary Mexico — Belvedere 21, Salon für Kunstbuch, Vienna, 2013 SOLO EXHIBITIONS / FAIR PRESENTATIONS • Locus Iste — Barvinskyi Gallery, Vienna, 2025 • ZsONA MACO — Barvinskyi Gallery, Mexico City, 2025 • Spark Artfair — KRAPS Salon with Norse Institute Central Europe, Vienna, 2025 • Spark Artfair — Barvinskyi Gallery, Vienna, 2024 • Fair Weapons — Pettenbach, 2024 • PARALLEL VIENNA — Vienna Gallery, Vienna, 2023 • Art Joburg — BODE PROJECTS, Johannesburg, 2021 • NADA Miami — Carbon 12, Miami, 2020 • Face it — Carbon 12, Dubai, 2020 • To defeat the purpose — Aoyama Meguro, Tokyo, 2020