LEO CASTAÑEDA
Born in Cali, Colombia, 1988
Lives and works in Miami, FL
leocastanedastudio@gmail.com
www.leonardocastaneda.com
EDUCATION
2012-2014 Hunter College, Masters of Fine Arts, New York, NY
2014 Soma Summer, Mexico City, Mexico
2006-2010 Cooper Union, Bachelors of Fine Arts, New York, NY
2002-2006 New World School of Arts, Miami, FL
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Solo
2022
Herramientas: Levels & Bosses, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
2021
Demo(s): Levels&Bosses, Tile Blush Gallery, Miami, FL
2019-20
Live Inventory, The Wolfsonian Museum -FIU: Art of Illumination commission, Miami, FL
2017
Launch Scenarios, Tete-ahh-tete.net
Mechanica, collaboration with composer Molly Joyce, Garner Arts Center, Garner, NY
2016
Items in Varied Renders, IRL Institute, Miami, FL
2012
Levels and Bosses, ArtSeen Gallery, Miami, FL
2011 Drawings, MRKT, Wynwood District, Miami, FL
Stage(s), Flagler Arts Space, Miami, FL
2010
Moments in Level One, The Hall of Great Bosses and The Others, Cooper Union Great Hall Gallery and Great Hall, New York, NY,
2009
Levels Bosses and Items, Cooper Union Sixth Floor lobby, Foundation Building, New York, NY, in collaboration with Victor Ochoa’s Tempomemorial
Group:
2024
TRANSFER Download: Sea Change, Peréz Art Museum Miami, FL
(Upcoming) Poli/grafica-Triennial, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2023
NOVA-Supercreativity Biennial, FILE Festival, Museu do Amanhã, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
No Vacancy, Miami Beach Art in Public Places, Miami, FL
Catalyst, Knight Foundation Forum, New World Symphony, Miami, FL
Embodiments: Negron Pizzaro Gallery, Untitled Art Fair, Miami, FL
Recursive Value,TRANSFER Gallery with Oolite Arts, Miami, FL
Media Under Dystopia 4.0, Mud Foundation, Miami, FL
2022
Alter Gaming, FILE Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Apuntes Americanos, Alianza Francesa, Lima, Peru
Media Under Distopia 2.0, MUD Foundation, Miami, FL
2021
Radical Gaming, HeK, Basel, Switzerland
Bass Museum video Commission, New World Symphony, Miami, FL
Walgreens Windows Oolite Arts, Miami, FL
Game Jam Lab, Museo La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia
2020
Work from Home, Bass Museum, Miami, FL
Vision Acuity, Clandestina + DSQ Projects, Miami, FL
Time to Play: Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, FL
2019
Inflexão, The Wrong Biennial, SESC, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Playground, Dot 51 Gallery, curated by Veronica Flom and Camilo Godoy, Miami, FL
Altered States of Conciousness, curated by Claire Breukel, Oolite Arts, Miami, FL
Art, Artists & You, Children’s Museum of Manhattan, New York, NY
2018
New Art Florida, Florida Atlantic University Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL
Art Nova 100, Guardian Art Center, Beijing, China
Augmented Sunrise Beneath My Skin, Gru_nd, Berlin, Germany
Activatar, IOS store augmented reality app, Curated by Chris Manzione, Online+ NJ
Education as the Practice of Freedom, Young Arts, curated by Jasmine Wahi, Miami, FL
Emergency Contacts, Placeholder Gallery, Miami, FL
Between a View and a Milestone, Art Center/South Florida, Miami, FL
The Big Short, Artist’s Institute, New York, NY
2017
The Fourth AIM Biennial, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
Seeing, LATE Activation and lecture, Frost Science Museum, Miami, FL
Let there be Light, Espacio Art Nexus, Bogota, Colombia
Visiones: Latinx Videogame Artists, Indie Grits Film Festival, curated by the Digital
Museum of Digital Art, Columbia, SC.
Bochinche, Collaboration with Alejandro Guzman, Faena Art, Miami, FL
Coral Orgy, Borscht Film Festival, New World Center Miami, FL
CTRL, The Projects, Ft. Lauderdale FL.
2016 Paper Hotshots: El Museo del Barrio at Blackburn, Robert Blackburn Printshop, New York, NY
Art and Technology: Alumni Exhibition, New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL
The Wax in our Wings, Placeholder Gallery, Miami, FL
News and Weather, Vox Populi, Philladelphia, PA
Play: in collaboration with composer Molly Joyce, Art Center S/F, Miami, FL
2015
“Of Games III”, Khoj International Artists Association, New Delhi, India
Uncanny, Curated by Helena Acosta, Reverse Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
Digital Vitality, The Projects, Ft. Lauderdale FL.
2014
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Hunter College Galleries, New York, NY
We are Not, SOMA, Mexico city, Mexico
2013
Superreal: Alternative Realities in Photography and Video, Museo del Barrio, NewYork,
Transmediation, Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York, NY
2012
8th Annual Small Works Show, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
All about Art, Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL
Algo Diferént, Associated Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Universal, Video program curated by Grela Orihuela. Arte Americas, Miami, FL
2011
Electric Wedding, Wetheat Projects Art Basel exhibit, Miami Beach Cinematheque,
Miami, FL
2010
Natural Selection, CGAF Gallery, Miami FL.
Field of Dreams, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY
On Alternate Realities, Cooper Union Foundation Building, New York, NY
2006
Young Arts Silver and Gold Winners showcase, Barishnikov Arts Center, New York, NY
Young Arts Visual Arts Showcase, Marguilles Collection, Miami, FL
PUBLIC TALKS
2023
Upcoming: Denver Art Museum Podcast
2022
Alumni Artist Talks, Miami-Dade College
2021
Lightbox conference talk. (online)
Killscreen talks (online)
The Art of Gaming, FIU Ratcliffe Podcast: Tech Conversations - Online and Miami, FL
2020
Lecture on Live Inventory project,
The Wolfsonian Museum - FIU, Miami, FL
Lecture, Conversatorios Virtuales, Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
2018
Local Views, Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL
Art + Tech Incubator, Lecture and workshop series, The Projects, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
2017
Optics: Seeing, Artist talk, Frost Science Mu seum in partnership with Young Arts, Miami, FL
2016
Jurnid Sessions: Digiartefacto, MCAD, Miami, FL
2016
Artist Lecture Series, FIU Miami Beach Urban Campus , Miami, FL
2013
Artist Talk, Outreach Pre-college Program at Cooper Union, New York, NY
PUBLICATIONS
2021
Interview, Killscreen Magazine
Spike Art Magazine (Radical Gaming) feature
2018
Artist Profile, Rhizome.org
Feature, radiance.co, Research platform for artistic VR experiences
2017
Coral Orgy, Vice, Creators Projects
Feature, Let there be light exhibition, Art Nexus Magazine
2016
Interview, Work Untitled Magazine
Interview and solo show review, Or Another Magazine + Young Arts
Interview, Art and Toast Magazine,
New American Paintings (Issue 123)
2015
Deconstructing Videogames for the Purpose of Art, Killscreen Magazine
2015
The best of Virtual Reality..., Creators Projects
UNCANNY show review, antiutopias.com
Poetics of a parallel reality Khoj Intl Artists Association editorial
Realism to abstraction and back again in art and video games, Cisneros Collection editorial
2013
Obstrusiv Magazine, NewYork, NY
2012
El Vestubulo # 8, New York and San Juan, Puerto Rico
Surface, Six Years Later Magazine Issue # 2, , Melbourne, Australia
2012
Exhibition Review, El Nuevo Herald
2011
Nobodies Vol 1, Drawmore inc. for New York Comic Convention
AWARDS/ RESIDENCIES
2023
Knight/USA Artists Art+Tech Fellowship
Young Arts Artist Technology Fellowship
Vortic Prize Digital Art Untitled Art Fair
Bakehouse Art Complex Resident
Oolite Arts Acquisitions
2022
Emergent Strategy Institute Praxis Fellow
2021
Harpo Foundation Grant
2018
Ellies Grant, Oolite Arts (also 2021)
WaveMaker Grant, Locust Projects
SFCC Fellowship, Miami Dade Art in Public Places
2017
Bronx Museum AIM Program Fellow
Espinasse 31 residency, Milan, Italy
2015
KHOJ International Artists Association “Of Games III”, New Delhi, India
2014
SOMA Summer, Mexico City, Mexico
Hunter College Cisneros Scholarship for SOMA Summer
2010
Irving and Arlene Tashlick Scholarship at the Cooper Union
2010
Utrecht Art Competition, Grand Prize
2006
Young Arts Foundation Silver Winner
SELECTED WORK EXPERIENCE
2019-23 Adjunct Professor, 3d animation, New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL
2017-19 Visiting Instructor, 3d Animation,Florida
International University, Miami, FL
2016-17 Lecturer in Dual Enrollment 3-D and 2-D Design and Architecture Senior High, Miami, FL
2014 Public Programming Fellow, Gego and Gerd Leufert: A Dialogue, in partnership with MoMA curator Geanine Gutierrez Guimaraes, Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, NY
