Leonardo Gabriel do Amaral
Artist/Writer/Educator



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Selected
  1. Ask me to stay, a little longer (2026) — MFA Exhibition
  2. Not in America, Through (2026) — Solo Exhibition
  3. Eight to Eighteen (2026)
  4. Almost (T)here (2025) — Installation
  5. Almost (T)here (2025) — Performance Lecture
  6. On Performing as an Immigrant (2025) 
  7. Colonização Cultural (2025-)
  8. Dress like a Brazilian (2025-)
  9. true! (2024-)
  10. I Am for You (2022-)
  11. O Imigrante (2021)
  12. Aqui Não É Sua Casa (2021)
  13. Copies (2021)
  14. An Unremarkable Dream (2021)


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Leonardo Gabriel do Amaral


Chicago, IL | +1 (607) 379-1809 | lgamaral99@gmail.com 

Leonardo Gabriel do Amaral (b. 2001) is a Brazilian artist, writer, educator, and curator.  Leonardo’s work spans across mediums exploring immigration, imperialism, love, and longing.

Education

School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Chicago, IL
M.F.A. in Studio Arts (Photography) - May 2026

Ithaca College - Ithaca, NY
B.F.A. in Film, Photography, and Visual Arts (Magna Cum Laude) - May 2023
Minor in Writing for Film, TV, and Emerging Media 

Solo Exhibitions
2026 - Not in America, Through - INCUBATOR - Chicago, IL

Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 - ad hoc - SITE Galleries - Chicago, IL
2026 - MFA Show 2 - SAIC Galleries - Chicago, IL
2026 - Simulation and Simulacra - Adrian Ibañez Galeria - Bogotá, Colombia
2026 - Yoko Ono’s Music of the Mind (Group Performance of Grapefruit) - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
 - Chicago, IL
2025 - YOU ARE HERE (photobook) - Staple + Stitch Art Book and Print Fair - Chicago, IL
2025 - Warhol’s Step Children - Open Studio Night SAIC - Chicago, IL
2025 - I Remember - Open Studio Night SAIC - Chicago, IL
2025 - I Am for You - Group Show - Out of Frame at SAIC
2025 - Colonização Cultural - Group Show - Nuestra Tierra at Zhou B. Art Center
2025 - Colonização Cultural - Group Show - Lick the Product at HOOK SPACE in the Chicago Fine Arts Building
2024 - I Am for You - Group Show - You Think You Know Me? at SAIC
2024 - true! - Group Show - Enigma at SAIC
2024 - Luzes de Casa - Group Show - Transfinite Induction at SAIC
2024 - I Am for You - Group Show -  Arts and Culture center in Hollywood, Florida
2022 - Copies - Group Show - Fold • Spindle • Mutilate at Park School Galleries

Publications
2026 - Reference vs. Reverence: Post-hyperpop and the Rebirth of the Future (article) - CLOT Magazine
2026 - Identity and Parity, Hegemony and Parody (Interview) - Remainder Magazine (#1)
2025 - I Am for You (artwork) - Stone Canoe (#18)
2025 - true! (artwork) - BOM Magazine Issue 6 The Internet Issue
2025 - threshold (curated and featured) - Photobook 
2024 - Meet Leonardo Gabriel do Amaral - Article in Canvas Rebel

Curation
2025 - Sights, Seen and Never Seen - Ukranian Institute of Modern Art

Awards, Grants, & Fellowships
2023 - James B. Pendleton Research and Production Grant
2021 - James B. Pendleton Cinema, Photography, and Media Arts Scholarship
2019 - Rod Serling Communications Scholarship

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