Leo Villareal

Leo Villareal (1967, Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an American artist living and working in New York City. His work combines LED lights and encoded computer programming to create illuminated displays. [Tan, Lumi. Biesenbach, Klaus, ed. "Greater New York", P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, 2005, p338. ]

Biography

Villareal received a BA in sculpture from Yale University in 1990 and a graduate degree from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP).

His work has been on display in "Visual Music 1905-2005", The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC and Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; "All-Digital", Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH; "Greater New York 2005", PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, "Fiction: New Vision in Contemporary Art", Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, China and "Art in America" at Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea. Recent exhibitions include: Gering & López Gallery, New York, NY, and "That Was Then, This is Now", P.S.1/MoMA, New York, NY. Villareal also has permanent installations at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Perry Capital, New York, NY, and Related Companies, Columbus Circle, NY. Villareal's work can also be found in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York. [ [http://www.villareal.net/bio.html Biography ] ]

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External links

[http://www.geringlopez.com/artists/leo-villareal/ Leo Villareal at Gering & López Gallery]
[http://www.villareal.net Leo Villareal]