Yessica Leaño is a Colombian artist residing in the capital, Bogotá. She is an interdisciplinary artist who works with various media, from sculpture with ceramics, sawdust and recycled materials to drawing with water and pen.

Passionate about creation, she doesn't limit herself to a single style, technique, or medium. During her university studies, she has been interested in discovering her essence through Art and that is why she dedicated her university thesis to experimenting with a material very close to her such as wood shavings, since her family background has been professionally involved in the wooden furniture industry. From there, she experimented with the shavings, concerned to see significant amounts of this material coming out of the factory, which was already considered waste and ended up in the trash. This led to the creation of Essentia, a sculpture of a felled trunk made entirely of wood shavings, currently exhibited at her alma mater, the University of the Andes in Bogotá.

Since there her interest expanded to concerns about her body, making her master's thesis an exploration of the relationship between the body and sport, since the latter has been very present throughout her life. In this way, she earns a meritorious mention in her Master's degree thesis in Plastic and Visual Arts, with the project - "Don't give up, suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion" Muhammad Ali -.

In recent years, her focus shifted to the pictorial, diving into oil and watercolor before transitioning to drawing, with a keen emphasis on crosshatching. This technique allowed her to explore a new world of creativity, and in January 2023, she embarked on a new project, drawing for 365 days with this technique to explore all the possibilities but now from drawing. She also wanted to unite the challenge, which requires total immersion each day, with another of her passions, history, and thus determined that each day she would draw a historical event with the aim of teaching or remembering events, through her drawings.

Yessica Leaño graduated as Business Administrator (2012) and Master of Arts (2014) at the the University of the Andes in Bogotá. In 2019, she obtained her Master's degree in Plastic and Visual Arts from the National University of Colombia.