Pronounshe/him

Department/College/UnitArts Division

TitleAssociate Professor PhD.

AffiliationFaculty

Web SiteEnrique

Primary Office LocationElena Baskin Building G
G-106

Additional Location(s)VARF 102 (Visual Arts Research Center). Rachel Carson College

Office HoursWednesday 11:30-1:30

Mail StopArt Department

Biography, Education and Training

Enrique Leal is a visual artist and Associate Professor of Print Media at the Art Department  of the University of California in Santa Cruz. Originally from Recife Brazil, Leal has worked as a printmaker in the U.S.A. and Spain before receiving his B.F.A. from the Polytechnique University of Valencia, M.F.A. and PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Castilla La Mancha (UCLM). He is the recipient of printmaking fellowships from the Institute of Iberian-American Culture, the Spanish Academy in Rome, and a visiting artist/teacher at Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, Rutgers University. Leal’s work has been exhibited and is found in collections in Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Spain and the United States.

Research Interests

Print Media, Photography, Drawing, Painting, Book Arts, Environmental Art, Posthumanism, Ecocriticsim, Process Philosophy

Teaching Interests

Print Media, Photography, Drawing, Book Arts,Environmental Art, Posthumanism, Ecocriticsim

Selected Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (recent)

Elliptical Emanation

(A)Void Gallery. Prague, Czech Republic

October 6 -18, 2021

Cast Light / Luz Arrojada

Ogami Press. Madrid

February 21-April 12, 2019

Catálogo exposición. Texto bilingüe.

Cast Light / Luz Arrojada. Holding the Light / Guardar la oscuridad. Ensayo crítico. Dra. Esperanza Collado. UCSC Arts Division. 2019

ISBN:978-1-7923-2061-3

A Kingdom of Fruitful Ambiguities

Manhattan Graphics Center. New York

June 30 – July 27, 2018

Catálogo exposición. Texto bilingüe.

A Kingdom of Fruitful Ambiguities / Un reino de ambigüedades fértiles. Ensayo crítico. Richard Noyce. . UCSC Arts Division. 2017

ISBN:978-1- 5323-8066-2

Permeations

MET Gallery. Budapest, Hungary.

October 24 – November 7, 2017.

Catálogo exposición. Texto trilingüe

Permeability vs Impermanence/Áteresztőképesség vagy átmeneti  jelleg/Permeabilidad vs. Impermanencia. Ensayo crítico Dr. David García Casado

UCSC Arts Division. 2017. ISBN: 978-1-5323-5629-2

Abysallia & Albedo

Sala Acua. Universidad de Castilla La Mancha. Cuenca, Spain.

September 27 – November 5, 2017.

Catálogo exposición. Texto bilingüe.

Material Animism/Animismo material. Ensayo crítico Dr. Armando Montesinos Comisario: Dr. Ramón Freire. ISBN: 978-1-5323-5630-8

UCSC Arts Division. 2017

Group exhibitions (recent)

Prague Biennale Projekt: Re-connect Art. Sowing Seeds. Barbara Benish & Enrique Leal. Video (4:05)

Prague, Czech Republic. September 3-9, 2021.

Learning to (Whisper). Edition Basel. Atelier Mondial.

Basel, Switzerland. July 23-26, 2021.

Resident Artists at Frans Masereel Centrum. Frans Masereel Centrum.

Kasterlee, Belgium. June 30, 2019

Arteduco. DEPO2015. 

Pilzen, Czech Republic. June 16-July 31, 2019

6th Annual Catamaran Magazine Art Exhibit.

Robert Blitzer Gallery. Santa Cruz, California.

May 3-June 1, 2019

Forms of Enclosure. New Prints 2019/Winter

International Print Center New York

January 17-March 23, 2019

The International Academic Printmaking Alliance Second Invitational Exhibition 2018.

Taoxichuan Museum of Art, Jingdezhen City, China.

September 1 – October 6, 2018

Splitgraphic International Graphic Art Biennial.

Split, Croatia

October 15 - November 15, 2017.

IM/MIGRATION.

ArtMill. Horaždovice, Czech Republic.

July 22 -September 15, 2017.