Gabriela Rascón Licano is a migrant artist originally from Chihuahua, Mexico, a theater director, cultural curator, and published author. Her practice integrates stage direction, immersive and interactive theater, performance art, textile arts, painting, and creative writing, creating works that position the body and Latin American identity as spaces of memory, resistance, and collective transformation.
She holds a Master’s degree in Continuing Education in Arts and Artistic Professions from the Carlos III University of Madrid, in collaboration with SUR School of Artistic Professions and the Círculo de Bellas Artes (Circle of Fine Arts), and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Stage Direction at the NAVE 73 School of Performing Arts. She complements her training with modeling studies at ESDIP School of Art in Madrid. She is the author of the book Desierto Rojo (Red Desert), published with the support of CONACULTA and the Chihuahua Institute of Culture, and the fanzine LAVA (Círculo de Bellas Artes / UC3M, 2023).
Among her stage and performance productions, notable works include Diosas sin rostro (NAVE73 and MFR, 2025), Cumbia (NAVE73, 2025), Cambio de piel (Círculo de Bellas Artes, 2024), and the performance Ware, presented at ARCO 2024. She has exhibited in spaces such as the Círculo de Bellas Artes, the Espacio Cómplices gallery, and the Madrid Design Festival. For more than six years (2006–2012), she developed and coordinated an arts workshop program for children of women incarcerated at the Chihuahua Women’s Social Reintegration Center, one of the foundational experiences of her commitment to art as a tool for social transformation.
At MFR, she has produced the group exhibition Entre el pincel y el color (September 2025), directed Diosas sin rostro (November 2025), and participated in the performances of Laboratorio de Diversidad (2025) and the Festival Cultural Iberoamericano Primavera: Miradas y Latidos (2025). She will soon curate SINOWI, Encuentro de Pintura y Literatura (September 2026), an initiative that seeks to create opportunities for Mexican women abroad and foster cultural exchange between Mexico and Spain through the work of four Mexican artists in painting and literature.
Gabriela Rascón Licano has been an artist-in-residence at Madrid For Refugees since 2025.