With a degree from the Provincial School of Plastic Arts in Cuba (1998), Leon's work involves an existential and pictorial investigation that is related to everyday matters. His understanding about painting revolves around the concept of art as a great tradition that obligues him to mix technical resources from the vastness of history.

The artist appropriates history and the many techniques or media in it as if they were codes through which topics and phenomena of our contemporaneity can be interpreted and expressed. His practice encounters a balance between European painting and "bad painting", creating a vital contrast between these two opposing realizations.