Leticia Pardo is a multidisciplinary artist from Mexico City, based in Chicago, whose practice lies in the boundaries between architecture, research & art. Her work reflects on stories about migration, place making and citizenship across borders, and how these manifest in the built environment. Her background in architecture and exhibition design largely informs the way in which she works as an artist. Through different media she documents the places that we inhabit, generally recurring to seriality and indexicality as a way to create meaning and respond to a specific site. Her most recent work ponders on the personal and political layers implicitly interwoven within the architectures that shape us socially––from domestic spaces to imposed borders. Pardo has also largely focused her work on documenting ways of place making by the Mexican community in Chicago through her ongoing project Greetings from Chicagoacán.
Her work has been shown at diverse cultural organizations such as the FotoMuseo Cuatro Caminos in Mexico City, the Saõ Paulo Architecture Biennial and the Chicago Architecture Biennial. She has been awardee of grants such as the Jóvenes Creadores grant by the Ministry of Cultural Affairs in México and the Esteemed Artist Award by the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Chicago, and she has been a resident at organizations such as Pocoapoco, Oaxaca, Art Omi, NY and KinoSaito, NY.