b. 1977, Baní, Dominican Republic, lives and works in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Working 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.
b. 1977. Baní, Dominican Republic. Faculty of Art of Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo with complementary studies in the Altos de Chavón School of Design associated with Parsons School of Design. Former member of editorial and art collectives La Vaina (2000-2006) and Shampoo (2005-2007). Lives and works in Santo Domingo. Lives and works in Santo Domingo.
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.
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. Comisario: 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 –iNSIDE THE NEST , sIMON PRESTON GALLERY New York
2017 Festival arte contemporáneo Brasil . PISOS
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
Collections
Museo Nacional Centro de arte Reina Sofia . Madrid
-cnap -Centre national des arts plastiques . Paris
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 , Republica Dominicana