Chonon Bensho
Chonon Bensho (1992) is an Indigenous artist from the Shipibo-Konibo people of the Peruvian Amazon. She is a descendant of wise traditional healers, known as Onanya, and of women who have preserved the artisanal and artistic traditions of their ancestors, which are deeply connected to their spirituality. She has developed an art form with its own unique language, where academic art techniques harmoniously converge with the spiritual heritage of ancient Shipibo artists. Chonon's art is highly diverse and expressed through various media and forms: poetic songs, embroidery, paintings, drawings, beadwork, among others. Together with her family, she also cares for an ethnobotanical garden and leads a reforestation project in the Native Community of Santa Clara de Yarinacocha. In 2022, she won the National Painting Prize awarded by the Central Reserve Bank of Peru. Chonon Bensho has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions, as well as art fairs, in Peru, New York, São Paulo, Oslo, Berlin, Basel, Paris, Mexico City, Madrid, Uruguay, and Buenos Aires.