Darwin Leon

Darwin Leon was born in 1972 in Santiago de Las Vegas, a small town in Havana, Cuba. In 1987, Leon's family sought refuge from the political and economic crisis in Cuba and departed for Spain, then later continued to the United States to settle in Miami. Leon earned his Bachelor's in Fine Arts from Miami International University of Art & Design, where he attended as a recipient of the 'Visual Arts Scholarship Award of Excellence' and received Best in Show at his first Juried Student Exhibition. His first direction was expressed through religious portraits. However, he found a greater enthusiasm for figurative and expressionistic forms in which he incorporated satire and irony through surrealism and cubism. Leon's work is energetic, fresh, alive, and abundant with color.

Leon's art combines aspects of the masters of the Renaissance, including the technique of chiaroscuro, with his own surreal style, which he refers to as Expressionistic Surrealism. Scenic images convey the essence of expressive design through the movement of action and textured elements. With a sharp sense of humor and figurative imagination, Darwin Leon details the social context of pseudo-political, human involvement with a gift for enhanced form and characte...

2005 - Miami International University of Art and Design - Bachelor's in Fine Arts / Visual Arts-Painting and Drawing

2024 - University of Florida - Master's in Art Education

2024 – Elysium of Distorted Harmony, solo show. Musonium Gallery. Los Angeles, Cl
2022 – Darwin Leon solo show. The FaFa Gallery. Midland, Texas
2018 – Darwin’s Metaphors, solo show, Art Emporium of Miami, Florida
2017 – Darwin solo show, Futurama Art Center, Miami, Fl
2016 - "Fish out of water", solo show, Gallerie 909, Saints Petersburg, Florida

Darwin Leon's new work, solo show, The Darwin Leon Gallery and Academy of Fine Art, Village of the Arts, Bradenton, Fl

Darwin Leon's exhibit, solo show, Art Center Manatee, Bradenton, Fl

2012 - "Non-sense", The Players theater, solo show, Sarasota Fl

2010 - “The Figure and the Abstraction” Art Center Manatee, Bradenton, Fl

2009 - "Unconscious Surreality - An Abstract Expressionist Vision of Reality", The Gallery art the Art Institute - Tampa, Fl
"Perceptual Shift", Dharma Studio Contemporary Art, Coconut Grove, Fl
“New work", Carrollwood Cultural Center Gallery, Tampa, Fl

2008 - "Surreal Reality of an Ironic Society" Green Bull Gallery at The Village of the Arts, Bradenton, Fl

2007 - “Art Revolutions: A neo-Renaissance Resurrection”, The Gallery at Eissey Campus, Palm Beach Community College.

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