Autumn de León (she/they) is an artist-printer whose work blends traditional craft with meditations on trans embodiment. Raised in the Bay Area and educated in English at UC Berkeley, her experience with letterpress began as an undergraduate, where she produced her first edition as a collaborative classroom project. Since then, Autumn has interned with The CODEX Foundation; published Fragments of Spring, a chapbook exploring transition as an element of nature; and is a member of The Real Lead Saloon, co-founded by Peter Koch and Susan Filter, where she conceptualizes, prints, and binds fine editions of poetry.
Her first artist’s book under the Lavender Corazón imprint, An Archive, preserves contemporary experiences of transgender patients alongside dated diagnostic questions, inviting readers to question how access to gender affirming care has been altered in recent years. Thirteen cards, printed letterpress, are housed in a roughly constructed institutional records box made of nonarchival chipboard; the box will degrade while the experiences and memories within remain. Original anonymized interviews were conducted throughout 2025, leading to completion of the edition of 15 during a residency at In Cahoots in 2026. You can view the prospectus by clicking here.
Autumn de Leon