www.villareal.net
Nace en 1967, en Albuquerque, Nuevo México
Vive y trabaja en Nueva York
Educación
1994 Universidad de Nueva York, M. P. S.
Programa Interactivo de Telecomunicaciones (ITP), Tisch School of the Arts
1990 Universidad de Yale, B. A.
Exposciones individuales
2014 Buckyball, Sandra Gering Inc., Nueva York
2012 New Work, Conner Contemporary Art, Washington D. C.
Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
2011 Volume, Gering & López Gallery, Nueva York
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas
2010 Leo Villareal: Recent Works, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida
Survey, San José Museum of Art, San José, California; comisariada por JoAnne Northrup
Synesthesia, Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, Nuevo México
Gering & López Gallery, Nueva York
2009 Stars, Galería Javier López, Madrid
2008 Leo Villareal: new work, Conner Contemporary Art, Washington D. C.
2007 Leo Villareal: New Work, Gering & López Gallery, Nueva York
2006 Digital Sculpture, Conner Contemporary Art, Washington D. C.
2005 Galería Javier López, Madrid
Flowers, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Ángeles, California
2004 Chasing Rainbows, Sandra Gering Gallery, Nueva York
New | Digital Light Sculpture, Conner Contemporary, Washington, D. C.
Supercluster, P. S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island
2003 Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
2002 Sandra Gering Gallery, Nueva York
Digital Light Sculpture, Conner Contemporary, Washington, D. C.
Proyectos site - specific
2012 Volume (Durst), 1133 Sixth Avenue, at 43rd Street and Sixth Avenue, Nueva York
Buckyball, Madison Square Park, Nueva York
Cosmos, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Nueva York
2011 Hive (Bleecker Street), MTA Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Arts for Transit, Bleecker Street Station / Lafayette, Nueva York
2010 Sky (Tampa), Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida
Sky, United States Federal Courthouse, El Paso, Texas
2009 Threshold, 1801 K Street, Washington D. C.
Diagonal Grid, Borusan Center for Culture and Arts, Estambul
2008 Multiverse, National Gallery of Art, Washington D. C.
Flag, That was Then… This is Now, P. S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, Nueva Cork
Scintillator, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (temporal)
2007 New Wave Art. Stars, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, Nueva York
Microcosm, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas
2006 Chasing Rainbows (Perry Capital), Perry Capital, Nueva York
Untitled, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP, Washington, D. C.
2005 Light Matrix, instalación permanente para el Albright - Knox Museum of Art, Buffalo, Nueva York
Set and Drift, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Govenors Island, Nueva York
Perry Capital, Nueva York
The Core Club, Nueva York
T Headquarters, Washington
Encargo privado, Coral Gables, Miami
2004 GSA Art - in - Architecture project, nuevo Tribunal Federal, edificio diseñado por el arquitecto Antoine Predock, El Paso, Texas
Chasing Rainbows / New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut (por encargo de Site Projects, Inc., temporal)
2003 Supercluster, P. S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, Nueva York
Star (Toulouse), Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse (temporal)
2002 Lightscape, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, Florida
Art Among The Stars, Grand Central Terminal, Nueva York
Art In General On Canal, Art In General, Nueva York
2001 Untitled, Museo de Arte Moderno, Ciudad de México
Massless Medium: Explorations in Sensory Immersion, Creative Time in The Anchorage, Brooklyn, Nueva York
KMX Reenergize Zone, Moby tour, video instalación itinerante
Exposiciones colectivas
2013 Light Show, Hayward Gallery, Londres
2011 Longitudes de Onda, OTR. espacio de arte, Madrid
Red. Force Fields, David Richard Contemporary, Santa Fe, Nuevo México
Altered States, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
January White Sale, Loretta Howard Gallery, New Cork, curated by Beth Rudin de Woody
2010 Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Nueva York
Love in Vein: Editions Fawbush. Projects and Artists, 2005 - 2010, Gering & López Gallery, Nueva York
MTA Arts for Transit, Bleecker & Lafayette Station, Nueva York
2008 Inauguración, OTR espacio de arte, Madrid
Solar Matrix (Claiming Space: Mexican Americans in US), Stanlee & Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, Claiming Space, El Paso, Texas
That was then… This is now, P. S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island
2007 Contos Dixitais, CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
2006 Art in America, Arario Cheonan, Cheonan - si
Backdrop,Bloomberg Space, London
All Digital, MoCA - Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Ohio
2005 John Kirchner | Photography / Leo Villareal | Sculpture, Conner Contemporary Art, Washington
Greater New York, P. S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
Visual Music 1905 - 2005, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D. C., y Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
2004 Summer group show, Sandra Gering Gallery, Nueva York
Innovate, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
Collector’s Cabinet, Mark Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, comisariada por Simon Watson
Art in General On Canal: Part II, Art In General, Nueva York
Fiction. Love - Ultra New Vision in Contemporary Art, MoCA Taipei
Optimo: Manifestations of Optimism in Contemporary Art, Ballroom Marfa, Texas
2003 High Desert Test Sites 2, Joshua Tree, California, comisariada por Andrea Zittel, John Connelly, Shaun Caley Regen y Andy Stillpass
Winter Light, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, Nueva York
In the Gloaming: Light in the Landscape, The Fields Sculpture Park, Ghent, Nueva York
Woodstreet Galleries, Pittsburgh
5 - year < Retro, Conner Contemporary Art, Washington D. C.
After Image, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
Decade, Schroeder Romero, Nueva York
2002 Sculpture Now: Works by Seven Contemporary Artists, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, Florida
Light x Eight. The Hanukkah Project, The Jewish Museum, Nueva York
Interstate: Tony Feher, Donald Moffett, Kay Rosen, Leo Villareal, Texas Fine Arts Association / The Jones Center for Contemporary Arts, Austin, Texas
I Just Can’t Pretend, Derek Eller Gallery, Nueva York
Optical Optimism, Galerie Simone Stern, Nueva Orleans
Complexity: Art and Complex Systems, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York, New Paltz, Nueva York
Shine02.org, proyecto en internet patrocinado por Amnistía Internacional y organizado por Downtown Arts Projects
2001 Escape, Tirana Biennale, Tirana (comisariada por Miltos Manetas)
Eye Candy, Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
Synth, organizada por Leo Villareal, White Columns, Nueva York
The Next Perfect 10, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York (itinerante)
Perfect 10: Ten Years in Soho, Sandra Gering Gallery, Nueva york
Art in the Anchorage 18. Massless Medium: Explorations in Sensory Immersion, Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, New York; organizada por Creative Time
2000 rooms_for_listening, CCAC Institute, San Francisco, California
Collector’s Choice, Exit Art, Nueva York
City of Lights, comisariada por Simon Watson & Downtown Arts Projects, Boutique Hermes, Nueva York
Exposure: The Future of Film Festival, USA Network & Scfi Channel, Nueva York
The Bunker Project, MTV, Nueva York
1997 Mind Probe, exposición - juego interactivo, USA Network, Scifi Channel, Nueva York
Elsewhere, Thread Waxing Space, Nueva York
1995 Clown Room, Royal College of Art, Londres
1994 Disorient, Burning Man Festival, Black Rock Desert, Nevada
1993 Surgical Simulation Toolkit, New York University Medical Center, Nueva York
1990 Controlled Environments, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Colecciones públicas
Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (instalación site - specific)
Arario Museum, Seúl
Borusan Kültur Sanat [Borusan Center for Culture and Arts], Estambul (instalación site - specific)
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, Nueva York
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, Nueva York
IFEMA - Fundación ARCO, Madrid
Jack S. Blanton Museum, Austin, Texas
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, Washington, DC
Margulies Collection, Miami, Florida
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, Nueva York
Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (instalación site - specific)
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas (instalación site - specific)
Perry Capital, Nueva York
The Related Companies, Nueva York
Somerset Partners, Nueva York
Time Warner Center, Nueva York
