Leonardo Madriz is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Working across methods of filmmaking, painting, sculpture, installation, and creative writing, he makes material assemblages and expanded cinema in which short films are projected onto minimalist structures of domestic architecture. Presenting personal narrative framed by external forces, his work speaks to notions of place as home, migration and assimilation, relationality, disillusionments of the American Dream, and the inner states of belonging. He holds an MFA from CUNY Hunter College, NY (2021) and a BFA from Louisiana State University (2010). Residency awards include Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program (2024-25), Bemis Center (2024), Wassaic Project (2024), and Vermont Studio Center (2014). Solo shows include Do Not Be Afraid at Parent Company, NY (2026), Sisyphus Altered at Strobe, NY (2023) and Can’t Forget, Dying to Know,at NARS Foundation, NY (2023). His installation Letters to Home was a selection of CURRENTS New Media Festival in Santa Fe, NM (2022), and a reformatted excerpt of Letters to Home IIwas presented by the DUMBO Projection Project (2025).

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