Momo Magallon
Multidisciplinary artist based in Panama City, Panama
Momo Magallón (1997, Panama) is a queer visual artist and cultural practitioner. Known for her multifaceted practice, Magallón works in different mediums such as painting, drawing, installation, video, and performance. Currently, her painting focuses on the collection, classification, and study of objects through the still life genre, blurring the lines of the spaces they inhabit. These objects allow her to explore themes of gender, sexuality, Panamanian history, failure, nostalgia, and belonging.
In 2019, she graduated from Florida State University with a BFA in Studio Art and returned shortly after to Panama City, where she currently lives and works. Her practice has been exhibited throughout North and Central America. Collaborating with over twenty-five institutions and independent collectives, including the Museum of Contemporary Art of Panama, the Interoceanic Canal Museum of Panama, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Querétaro, the Museum of Art of El Salvador, Understudy Gallery (Colorado), APEXART (New York), 621 Gallery (Florida), The Center for Reconciliation (Rhode Island), Teorética and Fresh Milk, La Revuelta, CCE Guatemala, CCE Panama, Espacio 42b, Mateo Sariel Gallery, Diablo Rosso, and NG Art Gallery, among others.
Magallón completed a residency at Satis.FACTORY in San José, Costa Rica (2022), and her work has been selected for international publications such as Emergency INDEX VOL. 10+ (2023) and Vitamin P4: New Perspectives in Painting (2026). Vitamin P4 is an art publication from Phaidon that brings together more than 100 contemporary painters who have innovated the medium of painting in the past decade.
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Since 2020 she is part of 'Panama Fem Art Coalition', which propels projects that support women artists in Panama. Most notably “Vaciar La Categoria” a group show of women artists exploring themes surrounding womanhood in Central America hosted and developed alongside the Museum of Contemporary Art in Panama (MAC Panama). In 2022 she co-founded 'La Busqueda', with Panamanian artists EVADE and Milko Delgado, to create cultural and curatorial projects in Panama City, Panama. La Busqueda has successfully organized exhibitions, performance nights, screenings, workshops, and markets that support and diversify the local artistic community.
Photography by Susana Aramburu
Artist Statement
My work uses mundane objects in domestic, urban, and rural spaces as a vehicle to engage in deeper conversations of belongingness, emotional distress, sexuality, and gender. My gestural technique focuses on paint as an object and a material that holds as much value as the image being depicted. Pastels, fun mark-making, and thick brushstrokes bring in the viewer, and what initially seems lighthearted and easy to digest later reveals itself as complex personal explorations.
In my performances my body is the vessel to continue exploring the physicality and plasticity of paint while also delving into themes of physical and mental stamina, becoming one with my surroundings, sexuality, and the historic and cultural diversity in Panama.
Latest Exhibitions
2026 Happy Hour (Solo Show)
Pop-up show
Panama City, Panama
2026 La Dimension de lo Invisible: rastros eco feministas en el arte panameño
Centro Cultural de España
Panama City, Panama
2025 Desde El Suelo
Espacio 42B
Santa Tecla, El Salvador.