Leonardo Madriz (b. 1987, Louisiana) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Working across methods of filmmaking, painting, sculpture, installation, and creative writing, he makes expanded cinema installations and material assemblages regarding the inter- and inner-states of belonging. He holds an MFA from CUNY Hunter College, NY (2021) and a BFA from Louisiana State University (2010). Residency awards include Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program (2024-25), Bemis Center (2024), Wassaic Project (2024), and Vermont Studio Center (2014). Solo shows include Sisyphus Altered at Strobe, New York, NY (2023) and Can’t Forget, Dying to Know, at NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY (2023). His installation Letters to Home was a selection of CURRENTS New Media Festival in Santa Fe, NM (2022), and a reformatted excerpt of Letters to Home II was presented by the DUMBO Projection Project (2025). Recent group shows include Repair at Shadow Walls for Upstate Art Weekend, NY (2025); Mirological: The Poetics of Mourning at SVA Galleries, NY (2025); The Masquerade at SVA Galleries, NY (2025); and I'm Not Alien, I'm Discontent at the Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (2024).