Leo Marz

It stares at you from billions of years ago
October 25th to November 22th, 2025



Leo Marz (Zapopan, 1979) lives and works in Monterrey, Nuevo León. He holds an MFA in New Media from the Transart Institute program and Donau Universität in Krems, Austria. He has been a grantee of the Jóvenes Creadores FONCA-CONACULTA program (2009 and 2013), the Jumex Foundation (2008), PECDA (2006, 2008, and 2010), and the Bancomer-MACG Arte Actual Program (2012). He is currently a member of the National System of Creators. His work has been exhibited at the XIV FEMSA Biennial, Emergency Biennale in Chechnya, 2nd Yucatán Biennial (Honorable Mention in Installation), Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, South by Southwest (Austin, Texas), CMJ Music Marathon (New York), Center for Curatorial Studies Bard Hessel Museum (Annandale-on-Hudson), Museo Jumex, Museo de Arte Moderno de México, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Casa del Lago, and MUCA Roma.

From 2005 to 2009 he was a resident curator at Object Not Found, where he developed various exhibitions, video programs, and lectures, and created the online forum for discussion and critique on emerging artistic practices in Nuevo León during the first decade of the 21st century. In 2011 he co-curated the video art program Círculos de Confusión: Caos Social y Ficciones Dominantes for Transitio_MX 04 (Mexico City). From 2015 to 2016 he was the local curator of the XII FEMSA Biennial. From 2016 to 2018 he directed Lugar Común, a poetic production space in Monterrey, N.L. He currently directs the arts program at the Roberto Garza Sada Center at the Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM).

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