Engel Leonardo (Baní, Dominican Republic, 1977) explores in his work the relationships between the human and history, architecture, and material culture. His production tends to be based on studies about Caribbean culture, modern tropical architecture, histories repressed by modernity, and the transmission of indigenous and African knowledge through objects commonly seen as artisanal, folkloric or ethnographic. Born and based in the Dominican Republic, the artist takes particular interest in the architectural and artisanal narratives that strain the notions of antillanía, tropicality, modernism, indigenous culture and Afro-atlantic culture. His work is included in the collections of the Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid), the Guggenheim Museum (New York), MASP (São Paulo), CNAP (Paris), Kadist (Paris–San Francisco), CPPC (New York–Caracas), and MAM (Santo Domingo). He has held solo exhibitions at MAC Niterói (Rio de Janeiro) and Kunsthalle Lissabon (Lisbon), and most recently has participated in group shows such as LGBTQIA+ Histories at MASP and Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora at MCA Chicago, ICA Boston, and MCASD San Diego. He has also taken part in the Nasher Prize Dialogues, organized by the Nasher Sculpture Center, and his long-term project Bahoruco has been presented in various locations across Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean. He lives and works in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

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