Visiting Artist Lecture: Leo Castañeda

The School of Art + Art History presents the Visiting Artist Lecture Series.

Join us for an artist talk and Q&A with Leo Castañeda on Tuesday September 8, 2026, at 6:15 p.m. in Fine Arts C (FAC) 0127

Leo Castañeda (b. 1988, Cali, Colombia) is a multimedia artist and video game designer exploring Latin American Surrealism in the digital age. His artwork primarily takes the form of episodic games and immersive installations that meld atmospheric paintings, video, mixed reality, wearables and sculpture. Castañeda is a Knight Foundation Arts + Technology Fellow, YoungArts Artist Technology Fellow, Emergent Strategy Ideation Institution Praxis Project Fellow and an Ellies Creator Award and Harpo Foundation grantee. Castañeda has exhibited at Pérez Art Museum Miami; Bronx Museum of the Arts; Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel; Museu do Amanhã, Rio de Janeiro; Museo National de Arte Guatemala; Espacio ArtNexus, Bogotá; Locust Projects Miami; Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia Colombia; Bienal de Antioquia y Medellin and the Bienal de Artes Mediales, Santiago, Chile. He is currently a resident at the Bakehouse Arts Complex in Miami and part of the 2026 Whitney Biennial in New York.