Ck Ledesma Borrero is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and curator originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, now living and working in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for nearly two decades. Their artwork is rooted in community engagement and social practice, using performance, sculpture, and multimedia to create experiences that expand the definition of art beyond the object and into the realm of dialogue and collective meaning. A core method in their process is call and response: creating work that is in dialogue with—and responsive to—current events, social conditions, and contemporary life.

Ledesma Borrero is the owner of satélite gallery in Milwaukee and currently serves as the City of Green Bay’s Public Arts Coordinator and contributes their leadership to the field through service on boards including Woodland Pattern and co-chair of Walker’s Point Center for the Arts. As an educator, they have served as an adjunct professor at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and as a guest lecturer at institutions including the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, the Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts, and Harvard University, among others.  

They are a 2025 40 Under 40 honoree, 2023 gener8tor Art x Sherman Phoenix Fellowship, 2022 Mildred L. Harpole Milwaukee Artist of the Year, and a 2020 Established Artist Mary L. Nohl Fellow. They have held artist residencies with Milwaukee’s Cesar Chavez Drive Business Improvement District and the Milwaukee Public Library. Their work has been presented nationally and internationally, including at the John Michael Kohler Art Center, Haggerty Museum of Art, Racine Art Museum, and through the Museums Association of the Caribbean–and, most notably, within our communities.