Leo Villareal
Leo Villareal (1967, Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an American artist living and working in New York City. His work combines LED lights and encoded computer programming to create illuminated displays.[1]
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[edit] Biography
Villareal received a BA in sculpture from Yale University in 1990 and a graduate degree from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP).
His work has been on display in Visual Music 1905-2005, National Gallery of ArtWashington, D.C. where his work makes use of the walls of the tunnel between the East and West buildings, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; All-Digital, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH; Greater New York 2005, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, Fiction: New Vision in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, China and Art in America at Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea. Recent exhibitions include: Gering & López Gallery, New York, NY, "Next Wave Art", Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY and That Was Then, This is Now, P.S.1/MoMA, New York, NY. In 2010 he will have a solo exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, and at Gering and Lopez Gallery, New York, NY. Villareal also has permanent installations at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Perry Capital, New York, NY, and Related Companies, Columbus Circle, NY. Villareal's work can also be found in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York.[2] and in the private collection of prominent contemporary art collectors CJ Follini and Renee Ryan. Leo Villareal is represented by Gering and Lopez Gallery, New York, NY and Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, DC.
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Multiverse, 2008, National Gallery of Art
