Leo Villareal
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LEO VILLAREAL
Born in Albuquerque, NM.
Lives and works in New York, NY
EDUCATION:
1994
M.P.S., New York University, New York, NY
Tisch School of the Arts, Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP)
1990
B.A., Yale University, New Haven, CT
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2010
Leo Villareal: Survey, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, traveling (August 21, 2010 - January 9, 2011)
Leo Villareal: Recent Works, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
2009
Stars, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain
2008
Multiverse, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (installation)
New Work, Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, DC
2007
New Work, Gering & López Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Origin, Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, DC
Backdrop, Bloomberg Space, London, England
2005
Marc Selwyn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain
2004
Horizon 24 + Horizon 8, Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, DC
Chasing Rainbows, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY
Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain
2003
Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2002
Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY
Digital Light Sculpture, Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, DC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS
2010
Synesthesia, Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, NM
Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
2009
Conversations in Lyrical Abstraction: 1958-2009, Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, DC
2008
That Was Then…This Is Now, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY
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: 1905 – 2005, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA and The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, DC
Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Museum of Art, Buffalo, NY
Set and Drift, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY
Greater New York 2005, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY
2004
Optimo: Expressions of Optimism in Contemporary Art, Curator: Alexander Gray, Ballroom, Marfa, TX
Fiction: Love Ultra New Vision in Contemporary Art, MOCA Taipei
2003
High Desert Test Sites, Curator: Andrea Zittel, Joshua Tree, CA
Winter Light, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
In the Gloaming, The Fields Sculpture Park, Ghent, NY
Woodstreet Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA
2002
Sculpture Now, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, FL
Light x 8, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Interstate, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, TX
I Just Can't Pretend, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
Optical Optimism, Galerie Simone Stern, New Orleans, LA
Complexity, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY
www.Shine02.org (online), organized by Downtown Arts Projects
2001
Tirana Biennale, Curator: Miltos Manetas, Tirana, Albania
Eye Candy, Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Synth, organized by Leo Villareal, White Columns, NY
The Next Perfect 10, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY
Perfect 10: Ten Years in Soho, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY
2000
rooms_for_listening, CCAC Institute, San Francisco, CA
Collector's Choice, Exit Art, New York, NY
City of Lights, Curator: Simon Watson & Downtown Arts Projects, Hermes Boutique, New York, NY
Exposure: The Future of Film Festival, USA Network & Scfi Channel, New York, NY
The Bunker Project, MTV, New York, NY
SITE –SPECIFIC COMMISSIONS:
2007
Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
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
e-specific installation, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
Massless Medium: Explorations in Sensory Immersion, Creative Time in The Anchorage, Brooklyn, NY
KMX Reenergize Zone, Moby tour, traveling video installation
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Bahamon, Alejandro, ed. "Chill Out: Architecture and Interiors." Loft Publications. [September 2003].
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].
Berwick, Carley. "Dada Digital." NYU Alumni Magazine. [Spring 2005].
Berwick, Carly. Leo Villareal. ARTnews. [June 2004].
Breslin, Ramsay Bell. "Rooms For Listening." East Bay Press. [October 13, 2000].
Capps, Kriston. "Leo Villareal: Digital Sculpture." City Lights, Washington City Paper. [September 22, 2006].
"Collector's Choice, Exit Art." The New Yorker. [December 11, 2000].
Crutchfield, Margo. "Leo Villareal." All Digital (Exhibition Publication). [2006].
Crutchfield, Margo. "All Digital." MOCA Cleveland Member Newsletter. [Winter/Spring 2006].
Dannat, Adrian. "Synthesiser's synthetic synthesis." Artist's Interview with Leo Villareal, The Art Newspaper, [July-August 2001].
Dawson, Jessica. "At Conner, Shining Examples." The Washington Post. [November 28, 2002].
Dawson, Jessica. "Leo Villareal at Conner Contemporary Art." tema celeste. [March-April 2003[.
Dawson, Jessica. "Twinkle, Twinkle Little LED." The Washington Post. [November 25, 2006]: C02.
Dixon, Glenn. "The Light That Will Cease To Fail." Washington CityPaper. [Nov. 28-Dec. 5, 2002].
Edelson, Sharon. "Light Fantastic." WWD. [March 17, 2004].
Gavlak, Sarah. "Leo Villareal." ArtUS. [April-May 2004].
Gopnik, Blake. "Music to your Eyes." The Washington Post. [June 23, 2005].
Griffin, Tim. "Synth." Time Out New York. [No. 302, July 5-12 2001].
Gupta, Anjali. "San Antonio, Texas." Art Papers. [November/December 2003].
Gurewitsch, Matthew. "Artists With an Eye for Music." Wall Street Journal. [July 28, 2005].
Harris, Shayla. "One to Watch." Artkrush. [August 23, 2006].
Hart, Sara. "Lighting Profile: Leo Villareal." Architectural Record. [May 2004].
Helfand, Glen. "Sonic Boom, 2000 Is The Year Of Sound Art." SF Gate. [October 13, 2000].
Hillner, Jennifer. "Color Coding." Wired. [June 2004].
Hummer, Tracey. Leo Villareal at Sandra Gering. Art in America. [June/July 2004].
Jenkins, Mark. "Conceptualists, Putting it on the Line." The Washington Post. [June 4, 2004].
Johnson, Ken. "Art Guide: Leo Villareal." The New York Times. [March 8, 2002].
Johnson, Ken. "Collector's Choice, Exit Art." The New York Times. [December 15, 2000].
Kimmelman, Michael. "What music might look like as modern art." New York Times, [July 6, 2005].
Levy, Alison B. "Splendor at the Market." NY Arts Magazine. [July/August 2006].
Lidgus, Sarah. "Electric Light Orchestra." Surface Magazine. [No. 50]
Litt, Steven. "Digital show both new and familiar." Cleveland Plain Dealer. [February 2, 2006].
Lozano, Luis-Martin. Arte Contemporanio Internacional. Museo de Arte Moderno. Mexico DF, 2001 [cat.]
Nuncio, Gabriel. Anos Luz. SPOT. [No. 24, June, 2005].
O'Sullivan, Michael. "Villareal's Trippy Light Fantastic." The Washington Post. [December 6, 2002].
Pandicio, Richard. "Ones To Watch." Interview. [November 1999].
Pollack, Barbara. "Ambient Art." Art In America. [November 2001].
Pratt, Kevin. "Massless Medium, Explorations in Sensory Immersion." Time Out New York. [No. 303, July 12-19, 2001].
Scott, Andrea. "Leo Villareal," New York Times [March 23, 2007].
Sheets, Hilarie M. "Points of Light." ARTnews. [June 2009].
Shelburne, Philip. "Rooms For Listening." Frieze. January-February 2001.
Smith, Roberta. "Massless Medium, Explorations in Sensory Immersion." The New York Times. [ July 20, 2001].
Tanguy, Sarah. "Leo Villareal at Conner Contemporary Art." Sculpture Magazine. [July/August 2003].
Valdez, Sarah. "Leo Villareal at Sandra Gering Gallery." Time Out New York. [March 20, 2002].
Wennerstrom, Nord. "Leo Villareal." Artforum, [February 2007].
Zacks, Stephen. "Lite Show." Metropolis. [May 2004].
SELECTED COLLECTIONS:
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
Jack S. Blanton Museum, Austin, TX
Arario Museum, Seoul, Korea
IFEMA, Madrid, Spain
Margulies Collection, Miami, FL
Dewoody Collection, New York, NY
Rockefeller Collection, Washington, DC
LEO VILLAREAL
Born in Albuquerque, NM.
Lives and works in New York, NY
EDUCATION:
1994
M.P.S., New York University, New York, NY
Tisch School of the Arts, Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP)
1990
B.A., Yale University, New Haven, CT
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2010
Leo Villareal: Survey, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, traveling (August 21, 2010 - January 9, 2011)
Leo Villareal: Recent Works, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
2009
Stars, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain
2008
Multiverse, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (installation)
New Work, Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, DC
2007
New Work, Gering & López Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Origin, Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, DC
Backdrop, Bloomberg Space, London, England
2005
Marc Selwyn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain
2004
Horizon 24 + Horizon 8, Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, DC
Chasing Rainbows, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY
Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain
2003
Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2002
Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY
Digital Light Sculpture, Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, DC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS
2010
Synesthesia, Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, NM
Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
2009
Conversations in Lyrical Abstraction: 1958-2009, Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, DC
2008
That Was Then…This Is Now, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY
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: 1905 – 2005, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA and The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, DC
Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Museum of Art, Buffalo, NY
Set and Drift, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY
Greater New York 2005, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY
2004
Optimo: Expressions of Optimism in Contemporary Art, Curator: Alexander Gray, Ballroom, Marfa, TX
Fiction: Love Ultra New Vision in Contemporary Art, MOCA Taipei
2003
High Desert Test Sites, Curator: Andrea Zittel, Joshua Tree, CA
Winter Light, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
In the Gloaming, The Fields Sculpture Park, Ghent, NY
Woodstreet Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA
2002
Sculpture Now, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, FL
Light x 8, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Interstate, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, TX
I Just Can't Pretend, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
Optical Optimism, Galerie Simone Stern, New Orleans, LA
Complexity, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY
www.Shine02.org (online), organized by Downtown Arts Projects
2001
Tirana Biennale, Curator: Miltos Manetas, Tirana, Albania
Eye Candy, Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Synth, organized by Leo Villareal, White Columns, NY
The Next Perfect 10, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY
Perfect 10: Ten Years in Soho, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY
2000
rooms_for_listening, CCAC Institute, San Francisco, CA
Collector's Choice, Exit Art, New York, NY
City of Lights, Curator: Simon Watson & Downtown Arts Projects, Hermes Boutique, New York, NY
Exposure: The Future of Film Festival, USA Network & Scfi Channel, New York, NY
The Bunker Project, MTV, New York, NY
SITE –SPECIFIC COMMISSIONS:
2007
Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
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
e-specific installation, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
Massless Medium: Explorations in Sensory Immersion, Creative Time in The Anchorage, Brooklyn, NY
KMX Reenergize Zone, Moby tour, traveling video installation
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Bahamon, Alejandro, ed. "Chill Out: Architecture and Interiors." Loft Publications. [September 2003].
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].
Berwick, Carley. "Dada Digital." NYU Alumni Magazine. [Spring 2005].
Berwick, Carly. Leo Villareal. ARTnews. [June 2004].
Breslin, Ramsay Bell. "Rooms For Listening." East Bay Press. [October 13, 2000].
Capps, Kriston. "Leo Villareal: Digital Sculpture." City Lights, Washington City Paper. [September 22, 2006].
"Collector's Choice, Exit Art." The New Yorker. [December 11, 2000].
Crutchfield, Margo. "Leo Villareal." All Digital (Exhibition Publication). [2006].
Crutchfield, Margo. "All Digital." MOCA Cleveland Member Newsletter. [Winter/Spring 2006].
Dannat, Adrian. "Synthesiser's synthetic synthesis." Artist's Interview with Leo Villareal, The Art Newspaper, [July-August 2001].
Dawson, Jessica. "At Conner, Shining Examples." The Washington Post. [November 28, 2002].
Dawson, Jessica. "Leo Villareal at Conner Contemporary Art." tema celeste. [March-April 2003[.
Dawson, Jessica. "Twinkle, Twinkle Little LED." The Washington Post. [November 25, 2006]: C02.
Dixon, Glenn. "The Light That Will Cease To Fail." Washington CityPaper. [Nov. 28-Dec. 5, 2002].
Edelson, Sharon. "Light Fantastic." WWD. [March 17, 2004].
Gavlak, Sarah. "Leo Villareal." ArtUS. [April-May 2004].
Gopnik, Blake. "Music to your Eyes." The Washington Post. [June 23, 2005].
Griffin, Tim. "Synth." Time Out New York. [No. 302, July 5-12 2001].
Gupta, Anjali. "San Antonio, Texas." Art Papers. [November/December 2003].
Gurewitsch, Matthew. "Artists With an Eye for Music." Wall Street Journal. [July 28, 2005].
Harris, Shayla. "One to Watch." Artkrush. [August 23, 2006].
Hart, Sara. "Lighting Profile: Leo Villareal." Architectural Record. [May 2004].
Helfand, Glen. "Sonic Boom, 2000 Is The Year Of Sound Art." SF Gate. [October 13, 2000].
Hillner, Jennifer. "Color Coding." Wired. [June 2004].
Hummer, Tracey. Leo Villareal at Sandra Gering. Art in America. [June/July 2004].
Jenkins, Mark. "Conceptualists, Putting it on the Line." The Washington Post. [June 4, 2004].
Johnson, Ken. "Art Guide: Leo Villareal." The New York Times. [March 8, 2002].
Johnson, Ken. "Collector's Choice, Exit Art." The New York Times. [December 15, 2000].
Kimmelman, Michael. "What music might look like as modern art." New York Times, [July 6, 2005].
Levy, Alison B. "Splendor at the Market." NY Arts Magazine. [July/August 2006].
Lidgus, Sarah. "Electric Light Orchestra." Surface Magazine. [No. 50]
Litt, Steven. "Digital show both new and familiar." Cleveland Plain Dealer. [February 2, 2006].
Lozano, Luis-Martin. Arte Contemporanio Internacional. Museo de Arte Moderno. Mexico DF, 2001 [cat.]
Nuncio, Gabriel. Anos Luz. SPOT. [No. 24, June, 2005].
O'Sullivan, Michael. "Villareal's Trippy Light Fantastic." The Washington Post. [December 6, 2002].
Pandicio, Richard. "Ones To Watch." Interview. [November 1999].
Pollack, Barbara. "Ambient Art." Art In America. [November 2001].
Pratt, Kevin. "Massless Medium, Explorations in Sensory Immersion." Time Out New York. [No. 303, July 12-19, 2001].
Scott, Andrea. "Leo Villareal," New York Times [March 23, 2007].
Sheets, Hilarie M. "Points of Light." ARTnews. [June 2009].
Shelburne, Philip. "Rooms For Listening." Frieze. January-February 2001.
Smith, Roberta. "Massless Medium, Explorations in Sensory Immersion." The New York Times. [ July 20, 2001].
Tanguy, Sarah. "Leo Villareal at Conner Contemporary Art." Sculpture Magazine. [July/August 2003].
Valdez, Sarah. "Leo Villareal at Sandra Gering Gallery." Time Out New York. [March 20, 2002].
Wennerstrom, Nord. "Leo Villareal." Artforum, [February 2007].
Zacks, Stephen. "Lite Show." Metropolis. [May 2004].
SELECTED COLLECTIONS:
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Kagawa, Japan
Jack S. Blanton Museum, Austin, TX
Arario Museum, Seoul, Korea
IFEMA, Madrid, Spain
Margulies Collection, Miami, FL
Dewoody Collection, New York, NY
Rockefeller Collection, Washington, DC