Leo Castañeda (b. 1988, Colombia) is a multimedia artist and video game designer exploring Latin American Surrealism in the Digital Age. His artwork primarily takes form in 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, Ellies Creator Award, and Harpo Foundation grantee. He is a former resident of SOMA Mexico City, Oolite Arts, and Khoj International Artists Association in New Delhi India. Castañeda has exhibited at Pérez Art Museum Miami; Bronx Museum of the Arts; Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel; Museu do Amanhã, Rio de Janeiro; Pérez Art Museum Miami; Espacio ArtNexus Bogotá; Digital Museum of Digital Art; Locust Projects Miami; Children’s Museum of Manhattan; and Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia Colombia. His work has been featured across 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.

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