ARTIST
Biography

b. 1977, Baní, Dominican Republic, lives and works in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Working with various media like sculpture, installation, site-specific interventions and ready-mades Engel Leonardo addresses issues related to climate, nature, architecture, traditional crafts and popular culture in the Caribbean. With Moderno Tropical (2013), an intervention at the modernist building of the Museo de Arte Moderno of Santo Domingo, questions the modern architectural models implanted in Latin America with 13 sculptures made of tropical architectural elements that aim to integrate the building with the local context. Other works of Leonardo, part of El Sur Kadist Collection, also related to the architectural and natural landscape of the island, Antillas (2013) consists of modernist pots incorporating Afro-Caribbean motifs representing with each vessel a different Caribbean island containing endemic plants of the archipelago, andUntitled (2011) shows a series of protected everyday objects with iron bars cages referring the architectural and social status of the region.



b. 1977. Baní, Dominican Republic. Faculty of Art of Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo with complementary studies in the Altos de Chavón School of Design associated with Parsons School of Design. Former member of editorial and art collectives La Vaina (2000-2006) and Shampoo (2005-2007). Lives and works in Santo Domingo. Lives and works in Santo Domingo.

 

 

Solo shows


2022. Bahoruco. Formatocomodo, Madrid.

2019. Farol. MAC Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro.

2019. Manoyuayabo. Diablo Rosso, Panamá.

2019. Meiririn, 2019.Kyoto Art Center, Lyoto.

2018. Faro. Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisboa.

2017. Ansapit, FORMATOCOMODO Madrid, Spain

2016. Repúblicas Bananeras Unidas. Junta. Panamá

2016. Plátano Power Bottom. White Cubicle Toilet Gallery. London

2016. Guano. CCESD. Santo Domingo

2016. Ranchos, Planchas y Gallinas. Venezuelan Pavilion. Santo Domingo

2015. Rural. Focus Latin America Arco. Madrid

2014. Rejas, Sillas, Vestidos, Muñecas y Plátano. Museo del Hombre. Santo Domingo

2014. Pedernales. Teorética. Costa Rica

 

 

 

Group shows

2022. Sustancia-SUSTANCIAS. Fundación Collegium, Iglesia de San Martín, Arévalo, España. Comisario: Patrick Charpenel.

2019. La Déesse Verte. Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille, Francia.

2019. Ilaciones. Grupal. Timothy Taylor, New York.

2019. Canción de la voz florecida. Centro Cultural de España, Santo Domingo.

2018. Palmas. Open Studio, Pivô, São Paulo.

2018   ARCO ,  FORMATOCOMODO , Madrid .

2017 –iNSIDE THE NEST , sIMON PRESTON GALLERY New York

2017 Festival arte contemporáneo Brasil . PISOS

2017 Podium , Instituto de visión Bogotá

2016. Segunda Gran Bienal Tropical. Puerto Rico

2016. Everyday Alchemy. Group show. Galerie Von Vartha. Basel

2016. CH. aco Planta. Sindicato, Chile

2016. Comparsa. Sindicato. Santo Domingo

2016. A great event is in the making. But no one has noticed. Intelligentsia Gallery. Beijing

2015. High and Local Villa Consuelo. Sindicato. Santo Domingo

2015. TXT. Instituto de Visión. Bogotá

2015. United States of Latin America. Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit

2015. The Yellow Ones are Mine. Intelligentsia Gallery. Beijing

2015. Kaolín. Emmanuel Hervé Galerie, Paris

2015. Tropical Ghosts. Storefront for Art and Architecture. New York.

2013. UNFOLD. Ramos Mederos. Santo Domingo

2013. Under Construction. William Road Gallery. London

2013. Statu Quo. MAM. Santo Domingo

2013. Bienal MAM. Santo Domingo.

2013 On Common Ground. AMA. Washington D.C.

2011 Bienal MAM. Santo Domingo

2010 Da Pa Lo Do. CCESD. Santo Domingo

2007 Bienal MAM. Santo Domingo

2006 Arte Urbano Sarmiento. Santo Domingo

2003 Bienal del Caribe. Santo Domingo

 

 

 

Residencies

 

2017 The Harbor .San Juan de Puerto Rico

2016. Gasworks. London

2015. Red Gate. Beijing Scholarships

2014. Emergencia contextos volcánicos. Artista emergente. TEOR/ética. Costa Rica

 

Awards

2013. Bienal Nacional de Artes Visuales. Museo de Arte Moderno. Santo Domingo

 

 

Collections

 

Museo Nacional Centro de arte Reina Sofia . Madrid 

-cnap -Centre national des arts plastiques . Paris

Museo Guggenheim de NY

El Sur. Kadist (Paris & San Francisco)

Museo de Arte Moderno (Santo Domingo)

Colección BANCO DE ESPAÑA

Colección Patricia Cisneros

Colección OTR (Madrid).

Colecciónes privada  en Suiza, Mallorca , Sao Paulo , Republica Dominicana


 


 




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