Naomi Rincón-Gallardo lives and works between Oaxaca and Mexico City. From a decolonial and queer perspective, her practice develops critical-mythical forms of worldmaking that imagine counter-worlds within neocolonial conditions. Drawing on theatre games, popular music, Mesoamerican cosmologies, speculative fiction, vernacular festivities, and craft traditions, as well as decolonial feminisms and queer of colour critique, her work combines performance, video, and installation into dense narrative environments.

She holds a BFA in Visual Arts from ENPEG La Esmeralda, an MA in Education, Culture, Language and Identity from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a PhD in Practice from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her work has been shown widely, including at the 59th Venice Biennale The Hayward Gallery and La Casa Encendida.