Introduction

Ernesto Leon was born in Caracas, Venezuela. He attended the School of Fine and Applied Arts in Madrid, Spain, the National University of Mexico and the New York University, USA.

With more than 23 individual exhibitions and 130 collective exhibitions all over the world, Leon has illustrated books, created film sets, collaborated on projects with architects, designed tapestries, and has made sculptures; producing a physical and virtual forum of creative activities for artists.

In 20 years of intense activity, he has shown his work in prestigious museums in France, England, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Japan, the United States, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, and Chile among others.

His work, distinguished by an anthropological character, registers archetypes directly related to the Hispanic-American culture, its landscape, its animals, and its Latin American inhabitants.

At this time he lives in the United States where he researches and produces web-based works of art and develops experimental proposals related to photography.

The origins of the new artistic forms that Ernesto Leon is currently engaged with are derived from his well-known art works titled “Bodegon” and “Un millon de unos”.

Ernesto Leon is today represented in several collections both public and private throughout the world.