Ingrid Pumayalla (b. 1989, Trujillo, Peru) is a Peruvian visual artist based in London. Working across installation, performance, moving image, photography, textiles and text, her practice explores the relationships between landscape, migration and memory through embodied encounters with place.
Raised in the northern Andes of Peru, Pumayalla draws from Indigenous Andean understandings of reciprocity, where landscape is a living presence that carries memory, knowledge and ancestral relationships. Through walking, attentive listening and lived experience, her works emerge as dialogues with place rather than representations of it. Performance, ritual, projection, knitting and storytelling become interconnected methods through which she explores transformation, belonging and repair.
Educated at Centro de la Imagen in Lima and later at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, where she received the Daniel Ford International Prize for Innovation, Pumayalla has exhibited internationally across Peru, the United Kingdom and Europe. Her work has been presented through exhibitions and residencies, including the Museum of San Marcos (Lima), the 15th Havana Biennial, Cuba, the Sidney Nolan Trust, Pilotenkueche (Leipzig) and Stokkøya (Norway).
