Leticia Gravitania was born in 1976 in Mexico City and now lives and works in San Francisco and Oakland CA.

Leticia Gravitania is a performance and visual artist born and raced in Mexico City, whose immense curiosity for everything creative has led to a multidisciplinary art practice.
Leticia’s work looks at the affects of culture, both pop and traditional, on the individual. An alternative image of our selves can be seen through her staged photographs, sculptures and installations, which often mix the real and the surreal. Each piece narrates an open-ended story about this world by using characters and objects that speak about people and confront us with our social issues. Her first interest in photography manifested as a desire to become a war photographer. It was these images of suffering as well as her upbringing in Mexico City that still today have a great influence in her work. Living in Mexico exposed her to a long tradition of telling stories through the use of fantastic creatures. At age 17 she worked in the production team of the Alexa Armienta puppet company, which can clearly be seen in her ongoing body of work ‘Children’s Games’, a large scale installation using life sized marionettes of children.

Leticia graduated with honors from the Motolinia del Pedregal University in Mexico City where she studied Interior Design and specialized in Museum and Gallery design. An honorific mention was also awarded to her for her thesis ‘Mexican Contemporary Art Center in San Fracisco CA’. She moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2000, where she has been involved in the art community since 2003, curating exhibitions, organizing performance events, studying circus arts and teaching fire performance.
She recently graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute with a Masters of Fine Arts.