b. 1977, Baní, Dominican Republic
lives and works in Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic
He works 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
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. Comisari 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.
2022.
Sustancia-SUSTANCIAS. Fundación Collegium, Iglesia de San Martín, Arévalo,
España. Comisari 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. Manjar Solar dos abacaxis Rio de Janeiro
2017. Inside the nest .Simon Preston New York
2017. Festival arte contemporáneo sescvideobrasil Sao Paulo.
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
Colections
Museo Nacional Centro de arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
cnap – Centre national des arts plastiques, París
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, República Dominicana
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