BIOGRAFÍA
Shaun El C. Leonardo
EDUCATION
M.F.A., Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, 2005
B.A., Visual Arts, Painting, Bowdoin College,
Brunswick, ME, 2001
AWARDS
2010 McColl Center Residency & Fellowship, Charlotte, NC
2008 Vermont Studio Center Residency & Fellowship
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Painting
2007 Art Matters Grant, New York, NY (for residency in Oaxaca, Mexico)
Smack Mellon Hot Picks, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
2006 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Swing Space Residency & Grant
2005 New York Studio School Drawing Marathon Scholarship
2004 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Residency & Grant
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Sleeping Giant, RHYS/MENDES, Minas Gerais, Brasil
2008 El Debut de El Conquistador, La Curtiduria, Oaxaca, Mexico
2007 Self-portrait Fight, SCOPE Miami, FL
Self-portrait Fight, Performa07, El Museo del Barrio New York, NY
The Whole ‘Dam Show, MARCH, New York, NY
El Conquistador, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Shaun El C. Leonardo, Rhys Gallery, Boston, MA
2006 The Steel Cage Match, LMCC Swing Space Performance, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Nuit Blanche, commissioned project, Toronto, Canada, 2009
Fusebox09, contemporary arts festival, Austin, TX
An Intimate Affair, collaboration with Kalup Linzy, AVA Gallery, New
York, NY.
Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports, Independent Curators International, traveling exhibition.
2008 75th Anniversary of Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre, Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
HEROIC, Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN
Hard Targets - Masculinity and American Sports, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Some Things We Do Together, collaboration with Clifford Owens, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Snofrid - World Premier, Smith-Stewart Gallery, New York, NY & Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
The Mayor’s Awards for Arts & Culture, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
The S-Files, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
Corona Plaza, Center of Everywhere: Four Site-Specific Projects, Queens Museum of Art, NY
Foam of the Daze, Smith-Stewart Gallery, New York, NY
Emergency Room, (performance censored) P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY
2006 Kick It One Time, RUSH Arts in conjunction with Ingalls & Associates, Art Basel Miami, FL
Invade My Dreams, Taxter & Spengemann, New York, NY
Black Alphabet, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Peekskill Project 2006, The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
Self-portrait Icon, P.S.1, Long Island City, NY
Close Connections, Art Amsterdam video program, Amsterdam, Holland
The Masculine Box & Beyond, The LAB, San Francisco, CA
I Never Meant to Hurt You, Buzzer 30, Astoria, NY
God Complex: Images of Power, RUSH Arts Gallery, New York, NY
2005 The Return of the Living Legend, El C. vs. The Invisible Man, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
Thick Lens, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Lucha Libre, Ice House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX
Vernissage, Herbst Pavilion, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
The Return of Futurism, 1015 Folsom, San Francisco, CA
Sol de Noche, Balazo 18, San Francisco, CA
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