L.H.M. is an artist, filmmaker, and writer hailing from Bogota, Colombia. She has spent half of her life in Paris, France. Her moving image work circulates within art spaces and cinema events, infused with the influences of her experiences as a first-generation immigrant in Europe, her upbringing amid Colombia's 1990s violence, and her passion for storytelling. Her films blend various genres and topics, including ethnography, ecology, fiction, and history, creating immersive experiences where aesthetics and politics are intertwined.

She has held solo exhibitions at prestigious venues such as MASP Sao Paulo, Maison des Arts de Malakoff, and Medellin's Modern Art Museum. Her films have been screened in renowned art institutions, including Centre Pompidou in Paris, Jeu de Paume, Guggenheim Museum in New York, and Times Art Berlin. She has also participated in biennials like Sharjah, Liverpool, FRONT Triennial, BienalSur, Videobrasil, and Videonale. Her achievements include receiving the Emerging Artist Award from the Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO, 2018), the Salon de Montrouge-Hauts-de-Seine Prize, and the Biennale de la Jeune Création Grand Prix (2017), as well as being shortlisted for the Future Generation Artist Prize in 2019. In 2023, she was awarded the AWARE Nouveau Regard Prize, a French prize for mid-career women artists.

L.H.M. pursued her studies at Beaux-Arts de Paris and Le Fresnoy, earning a PhD from PSL University, a joint program with Beaux-Arts de Paris and ENS rue d'Ulm. Her practice-based PhD on "Ethnographic Fictions" was partially developed at Harvard's Sensory Ethnography Lab. Her films have been the focus of over twenty retrospectives and focused screenings in cinematheques, including notable venues like Toronto's TIFF Lightbox, Harvard's Film Archive, and Cinemateca de Bogota. Her work has also been showcased at prominent film festivals such as Mar del Plata and Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montreal (RIDM), in addition to art spaces. Furthermore, her films have been part of the official selections at festivals like the Berlinale, Toronto International Film Festival (Wavelengths), Rotterdam, the New York Film Festival, and Cinéma du Réel, earning awards at events including the Locarno Film Festival (Best Direction Prize), FIDMarseille, Doclisboa, and Videobrasil, among others.

She has taught in various institutions, including the Escuela de Cine y Television de San Antonio de los Baños (Cuba), the Fine Arts of Cergy (ENSAPC), and the Piet Zwart Institute. Currently, she serves as the co-chair of the Film/Video department at Bard's MFA. In 2019 she co-founded the collective Counter Encounters, along with Rachael Rakes and later joined by Onyeka Igwe.