Cristina Mittermeier

How the Leopard Got its Spots

2025

Cristina Mittermeier is a Mexican contemporary artist who began her career as a Marine Biologist, working in her native Mexico. For the past 25 years, she has dedicated herself to inspiring a global audience to care about the delicate balance between human well-being and healthy ecosystems. Her work has exhibited at the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, The Miller Gallery, in Cincinnati, The Paul Nicklen Gallery, in New York, Xposure, in the UAE, Art Basel Miami, Terras de Salitre/Mar de Mares Festival, in Santiago, The Museum of Plastic Pop-Up, in New York, The United Nations Headquarters, in association with Disney and Girl Up, and at Fotografiska, in Stockholm, Sweden. Cristina is the co-founder of SeaLegacy, the founder and former president of the International League of Conservation Photographers, a board member for the WILD Foundation, an advisor on two major Conservation International programs, an esteemed public speaker and a recipient of multiple internationally recognized awards for her photography. In 2016, she received the Imaging Award for photographers who give back and in 2018, she was acknowledged as a National Geographic Adventurer of the Year. She is the editor of 26 conservation photography books and her fine art coffee table book, Amaze, is in its second printing.