Leonardo DrewA recipient in 2008 of Harpo Foundation support, Leonardo Drew is known for his dynamic large-scale sculptural installations, which incorporate created, manipulated and found materials such as paper, wood, tree branches and roots, rust and mud. He has been making artwork since childhood, first exhibiting his work at the age of 13. He went on to attend the Parsons School of Design and received his BFA from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and art in 1985. His work has been exhibited in a number of prestigious institutions such as the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC; Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin, Ireland; Art Institute of Chicago; Miami Art Museum; and St. Louis Art Museum. Drew’s mid-career survey exhibition, Existed: Leonardo Drew, debuted in 2009 at the Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston and traveled to the Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC.
Alma RuizA curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Los Angeles, Alma Ruiz has curated numerous exhibitions of contemporary art, with a primary focus on the postwar period in Italy and Latin America, as well as emerging artists. She has been a juror for numerous exhibitions and art biennials in the United States and Latin America including the V Panama Biennial, the Tamayo Biennial in Mexico City, the Second Exhibition of Central American emerging artists in San Jose, Costa Rica, and Women Artists on Immigration in Los Angeles. She has served as a panelist for The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans and Creative Capital Foundation in New York, and is a member of the Advisory Committee for the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation in Miami and Outpost for Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.
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