María Esther Lemus Cordero

María Esther Lemus Cordero is a visual artist, illustrator, and comic artist, born in Havana in 1990. She holds a degree in Sculpture from the Eduardo Abela Academy of Fine Arts in San Antonio de los Baños, Artemisa, Cuba. In 2019, she was a founding member of xel2, a Cuban graphic-humor weekly platform promoted by elTOQUE, where she explored political and social satire until its forced closure in 2022. She has held several solo exhibitions and participated in more than thirty group exhibitions in Cuba, the United States, and France. Her work has been published in various journalistic outlets such as elTOQUE and Cubanet, as well as in cultural magazines and collective books including Soñar La Habana(2014), Habana Made in Cuba (2016), and 75 Years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Views from Cuba(2023), among others. From a critical perspective, her practice addresses Cuban and international current affairs through humor and satire. She currently lives in exile.