Leonardo Madriz: Home Coming

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The Galleries at LSU will host an exhibition of Baton Rouge native and LSU alum Leonardo Madriz assemblage and expanded cinema work.

LSU College of Art & Design Galleries will present Leonardo Madriz: Home Coming, as part of the LSU School of Art Lineages Series, which features the work of mid-career alumni artists. Raised in Baton Rouge, Leonardo Madriz's self-titled solo exhibition will feature present assemblage, expanded cinema, photographic works that explore notions of place as home, migration and assimilation, relationality, disillusionments of the American Dream, and the inner states of belonging.

The exhibition will be on view at Glassell Gallery in the Shaw Center for the Arts from November 5 through December 12, 2026, with a reception scheduled for Thursday, November 5 from 6 to 8 p.m. LSU School of Art invites the public to attend a lecture by Leonardo Madriz to be presented in Julian T. White Hall 103 on Wednesday, November 4, 2026, at 5 p.m. All events are free and open to all.

This exhibition is hosted by LSU School of Art and LSU College of Art & Design with support from a Louisiana Project Assistance Grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Leonardo Madriz: Home Coming

On View: November 5–December 12, 2026, Glassell Gallery

Lecture: Wednesday, November 4, 5 p.m.; Julian T. White Hall 103

Reception: Thursday, November 5, 6–8 p.m., Glassell Gallery

About the Artist

Born in Lafayette and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Leonardo Madriz is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Working across methods of filmmaking, painting, sculpture, installation, and creative writing, he makes material assemblages and expanded cinema in which short films are projected onto minimalist structures of domestic architecture. Presenting personal narrative framed by external forces, his work speaks to notions of place as home, migration and assimilation, relationality, disillusionments of the American Dream, and the inner states of belonging.

Madriz received his MFA from Hunter College in 2021 and his BFA from Louisiana State University in 2010. He is represented by Hauser and Wirth and has taught at the International Center for Photography and The School of Visual Arts. His residencies and fellowships include the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY; Wassaic Project; Bemis Center; Proyecto en Sitio, Umecuaro, MX; Goldberg Foundation Scholarship, Curatorial Workshop with Koyo Kouoh, 2019, Vermont Studio Center Grant and Residency; New York Studio School Painting Scholarship.