León Valencia Currie (b. 1998) is a multimedia artist based in Minneapolis, Minneosta.

The vulnerable and restless body is a starting point. Collaging with film photography, and drawing on cardboard, resin, textiles, cardstock, printer, notebook, and tracing paper, Currie activates the physical and the tactile qualities of contradictory conditions. 

Their practice is both meditative and cathartic. An important aspect of their physical and conceptual process is to slow down time. This allows Currie to develop visual conundrums and excavate difficult emotions such as pain, sorrow, loneliness, loss, obsession and desire. Through making both large-scale and intimate collections of photographic and hand-drawn images, Currie works with the uncomfortable process of self-exploration and self-identification.

Symbols of nature ground their work, reconnecting each piece to the land that they occupy. Reconnecting with nature and finding abandoned, derelict settings creates space for loneliness and loss. The disintegration they contain is a small reminder of both degradation and possibility.

León is a member of the Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association.