Leticia Izrego (Spain, 1987) is a multidisciplinary artist, human rights researcher, university lecturer, and cultural mediator. Her practice operates at the intersection of contemporary art, the body, power, and social justice, informed by feminist poststructuralist theory and critical thought.

She holds a PhD (Summa Cum Laude with International Distinction) from the University of Salamanca (USAL). Her PhD research examines self-inflicted and third-party consented injury in performance art as a lens through which to analyze bodily politics, agency, and symbolic violence within human rights and gender frameworks. In her artistic practice, performance functions as a site of friction and resistance, where the body is not metaphor but political matter.

Izrego works across painting, installation, performance, video, sound, and writing, creating dispositifs that combine archival materials, corporeal gesture, irony, and critical humor. Humor in her work is not relief but destabilization — exposing the contradictions embedded in patriarchal, institutional, and academic structures. Her installations often incorporate organic materials, everyday objects, and sonic registers that blur the boundary between intimacy and public confrontation.

Her work has been presented internationally in exhibitions, festivals, and academic contexts, including the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), Octopus Art Center (Brussels), Beoproject Gallery (Belgrade), Museo La Tallera (Cuernavaca), and multiple feminist and contemporary art festivals in Spain. She has performed and exhibited in Serbia, Mexico, Ethiopia, Brazil, Portugal, and across Spain.

As a researcher, she has been affiliated with the International Seminar on Contemporary History of Human Rights (University of Salamanca) since 2017 and participated in research residencies at the Live Art Development Agency (London) and Universidade Portucalense (Porto). She has presented extensively at international conferences on performance, gender, and human rights in Spain, Portugal, Mexico, and Brazil, including congresses hosted by the University of Salamanca, Universidade Portucalense, Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico), and international forums on Action Art.

Izrego teaches at the U.S.-based University Studies Abroad Consortium (USAC) in Madrid, where she lectures on Drawing in the Street, Twentieth-Century and Contemporary Spanish History and Cinema, and Comparative Religions from a gender perspective. Her pedagogical approach integrates critical theory, artistic practice, and situated methodologies in urban and institutional spaces.

Since 2021 she has collaborated with the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, facilitating workshops on art, feminism, ecofeminism, and methodologies for women artists and professors. Her humanitarian engagement includes work with La 72 Migrant Shelter (Mexico), the Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Human Rights Center (Chiapas), and co-founding No Name Kitchen in Belgrade, an organization providing support to people on the move across European borders.

She is co-founder and co-director of El Telart, a rural-based art and research initiative in Ávila (Spain) that develops residencies, feminist cultural programs, and community-based projects focused on gender, ecology, and territorial revitalization.

Izrego understands art not as autonomous production but as a critical tool capable of intervening in discourses of memory, migration, body politics, and structural violence — operating within the tension between research, lived experience, and political action.