HECTOR LEONARDI

Hector Leonardi has been communicating the joy of painting through his art for over forty years. He received a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in the early fifties and an MFA at Yale University where he studied with and was mentored by Josef Albers. His first job was as an assistant to industrial designer Russel Wright and he went on to teach basic design, color theory, and drawing at The Parsons School of Design for twenty years.

Though a beloved teacher and mentor to younger artists, Leonardi’s primary focus for the last four and a half decades has been his own artwork, paintings that merge Abstract Expressionism and European Modernism into a unique painting style and technique. Throughout his career, Leonardi has had a consistent stream of solo exhibitions in prestigious New York and international galleries. He has received impressive honors and awards as well as glowing reviews in a number of publications, and his paintings are included in many private and public collections.
 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• 2008 Dillon Gallery, New York
• 2006 Dillon Gallery, New York
• 2004 Gallery Terrence Denley, Birmingham, AL
• 2003 The Viewing Room Gallery, New York
• 2001 Robert Steele Gallery, New York
  Margaret Bodell Gallery New York
  Robert Steele Gallery New York, NY
• 1998 Robert Steele Gallery New York, NY
• 1991 RVS Fine Art Southampton, NY
  Gallery d’Arte Venice, Italy
• 1990 Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL
• 1981 Mattuck Museum, Waterbury, CT

SELECTED COLLECTIONS 

• Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury,
• Connecticut 
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
• Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Indiana