Ileana García Magoda

Bio

Ileana García Magoda (b. 1985, Mexico City) is a painter working at the intersection of chronic illness and visual art. Born with Occult Spinal Dysraphism, she spent over a decade as an art director in television advertising and as the creative force behind Smurphy, a critically acclaimed electronic music project with an international presence. When deteriorating health brought both careers to an end in late 2020, she returned to painting, a practice she had long set aside, and found in it both language and purpose. Her work is rooted in the lived experience of pain.