Felipe Ledesma Núñez is an Ecuadorian sculptor and historian of sound whose work engages the Andean colonial archive and its sonic traces through the creation of ceramic sound artifacts.
Ledesma earned a PhD in musicology from Harvard University after studies at Universidad de Cuenca, Northwestern State University of Louisiana, and SUNY Stony Brook. Ledesma’s work has been supported by Harvard Horizons, Dumbarton Oaks, and the Society for American Music.
At Yale, Ledesma is completing Coya Huarmi: Escuchando al Archivo Colonial, a bilingual monograph for Dumbarton Oaks; launching uYAKu, a whistling-bottle exhibition at Miller Hall from February 4 to March 6, 2026; and teaching the studio-seminar Clay | Sound.