Leo Castañeda

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 Institute 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. His work has been featured on PBS, Rhizome, Killscreen, Vice, Hyperallergic, ArtNexus, El Pais, Spike Art Magazine, and New American Paintings. He is currently a resident at the Bakehouse Arts Complex in Miami.