LEO VILLAREAL
526 West 26th Street, #307
New York, NY 10001
(212) 229-1139
leo (at) villareal (dot) net
Born 1967 - Albuquerque, NM
EDUCATION
1994 New York University, M.P.S.
Tisch School of the Arts, Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP)
1990 Yale University, B.A.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 Gering & López Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, DC
2005 Galeria Javier López, Madrid, Spain
Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Sandra Gering Gallery, NY
Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, DC
2003 Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2002 Sandra Gering Gallery, NY
Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, DC
SITE-SPECIFIC COMMISSIONS
2007 Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
2006 Kirkpatrick and Lockhart, Washington, DC
2005 Permanent installation for Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Set and Drift, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Govenors Island NY
Perry Capital, New York, NY
The Core Club, New York, NY
2004 GSA Art-in-Architecture project, new federal courthouse by architect Antoine Predock,
El Paso, TX
Chasing Rainbows / New Haven, New Haven, CT
2003 Supercluster, PS1, Long Island City, NY
Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France
2002 Lightscape, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, FL
Art Among The Stars, Grand Central Station, New York, NY
Art In General On Canal, Art In General, New York, NY
2001 Arte Contemporaneo Internacional, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
Massless Medium: Explorations in Sensory Immersion, Creative Time in The Anchorage,
Brooklyn, NY
KMX Reenergize Zone, Moby tour, traveling video installation
GROUP EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS
2007 Digital Stories, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), Santiago, Spain
2006 Lightworks, Galería Javier López, Madrid, Spain
Backdrop, Bloomberg SPACE, London, England
All Digital, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
Summer Light, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY
Art in America, Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2005 Visual Music, LAMoca, Los Angeles & Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Washington DC
Extreme Abstraction, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Greater New York, PS1 Moma, New York, NY
2004 Optimo, Ballroom, Marfa, Texas curated by Alexander Gray
Fiction Love- Ultra New Visions in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei
2003 High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, CA organized by Andrea Zittel
Winter Light, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
In the Gloaming, The Fields Sculpture Park, Ghent, NY
Afterimage, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA
Complexity, Federal Reserve, Washington, DC
2002 Sculpture Now, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, FL
Light x 8, The Jewish Museum, NY
Interstate, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, TX
I Just Canıt Pretend,Derek Eller Gallery, NY
Optical Optimism,Galerie Simone Stern, New Orleans, LA
Complexity, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, TX
Shine02.org, Online art project sponsored by Amnesty International, organized by
Downtown Arts Projects
2001 Tirana Biennale, Tirana (curated by Miltos Manetas)
Eye Candy, Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Synth, organized by Leo Villareal, White Columns, New York
The Next Perfect 10, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York (traveling)
Perfect 10: Ten Years in Soho,Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
2000 rooms_for_listening, CCAC Institute, San Francisco, CA
Collectorıs Choice, Exit Art, New York
City of Lights, curated by Simon Watson & Downtown Arts Projects, Hermes Boutique, New York
Exposure: The Future of Film Festival, USA Network & Scfi Channel, New York
Optical Optimism,Galerie Simone Stern, New Orleans, LA
The Bunker Project, MTV, New York
1997 Elsewhere, Thread Waxing Space, New York
LEO VILLAREAL / SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Gupta, Anjali, "San Antonio, Texas," Art Papers, November/December 2003
Bahamon, Alejandro, ed. "Chill Out: Architecture and Interiors", Loft Publications, September 2003
Tanguy, Sarah, "Leo Villareal at Conner Contemporary Art", Sculpture Magazine, July/August 2003
Dawson, Jessica, "Leo Villareal at Conner Contemporary Art," tema celeste, March-April 2003
O'Sullivan, Michael, "Villareal's Trippy Light Fantastic," The Washington Post, December 6, 2002
Dawson, Jessica, "At Conner, Shining Examples," The Washington Post, November 28, 2002
Dixon, Glenn, "The Light That Will Cease To Fail," Washington CityPaper, Nov. 28-Dec. 5, 2002
Valdez, Sarah, "Leo Villareal at Sandra Gering Gallery," Time Out New York, March 20, 2002
Johnson, Ken, "Art Guide: Leo Villareal," The New York Times, March 8, 2002
Lozano, Luis-Martin, Arte Contemporanio Internacional, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico DF, 2001
(catalog)
Dannat, Adrian, "Synthesiser's synthetic synthesis," Artist's Interview with Leo Villareal, The Art
Newspaper, July-August 2001
Griffin, Tim, "Synth," Time Out New York, Issue 302, July 5-12, 2001
Pollack, Barbara, "Ambient Art", Art In America, November 2001
Smith, Roberta, "Massless Medium, Explorations in Sensory Immersion," The New York Times,
Friday, July 20, 2001
Pratt, Kevin, "Massless Medium, Explorations in Sensory Immersion," Time Out New York, Issue
303, July 12-19, 2001
Johnson, Ken, "Collector's Choice, Exit Art," The New York Times, Friday December
15, 2000
"Collector's Choice, Exit Art," The New Yorker, December 11, 2000
Shelburne, Philip, "Rooms For Listening," Frieze, January-February, 2001
Baker, Kenneth, "Stop, Look and Listen, Rooms For Listening," San Francisco Chronicle, September
9, 2000
Berk, Amy, "Rooms For Listening at CCAC," Artweek, November 2000
Breslin, Ramsay Bell, "Rooms For Listening," East Bay Press, October 13, 2000
Helfand, Glen, "Sonic Boom, 2000 Is The Year Of Sound Art," SF Gate, October 13,
2000
Pandicio, Richard, "Ones To Watch," Interview, November 1999
