ARTIST LECTURES & CONVERSATIONS

Kandinsky Symposium, Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. June 11, 2011. From left to right Frank Stella, Klaus Ottoman, Leo Villareal. Photo courtesy of the Phillips Collection.

Leo Villareal in Conversation with Jeff Davis at Art Blocks Marfa. May 2022.

ART SPEAKS: Leo Villareal, KAWS, Sanford Biggers, and Jennifer Rubell in conversation with Arnold Lehman. July 7. 2021.

Leo Villareal in conversation with ASU President Michael Crow, Wallis Annenberg Director and CEO of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Michael Govan, and ASU Art Museum Director Miki Garcia. ASU Art Museum. Held as a Zoom webinar on Nov. 17, 2020.

The Bay Bridge: From Infrastructure to an Art Piece, Artist Leo Villareal, Google Zeitgeist

Light and Code as a Medium in the 21st Century | Leo Villareal | TEDxOrientHarbor

Architectural Record Conference, October 2024

Activating Architecture with Light and Code, Brown University Light in Art and Architecture Symposium, September, 2024

Activating Architecture with Light and Code, Figge Art Museum, September 2024

Encounter Culture Podcast, Look Up! Leo Villareal’s Astral Array at New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary, November 2023

Leo Villareal in Conversation with Jeff Davis at Art Blocks Marfa. May 6, 2022.

Leo Villareal, Conversations About Art Podcast with Heidi Zuckerman. May 30, 2022

Leo Villareal, Artist Talk, Sea Containers London. Presented by the Illuminated River Foundation, May 19, 2022.

ART SPEAKS: Leo Villareal, KAWS, Sanford Biggers, and Jennifer Rubell in conversation with Arnold Lehman. July 7, 2021.

Leo Villareal in conversation with Anne Pasternak, Pace Gallery Instagram TV, May 2020

The Art of BlockChains, Miami Beach, FL. Presented by Adam Lindemann. December 4, 2019.

Leo Villareal, Artist Talk, Southwark Cathedral London. Presented by the Illuminated River Foundation, November 22, 2019

Transfiguring the City, Cartier Santos, April 5, 2018

The Future of Light Art: Leo Villareal | Light + Code as Medium, ZKM center for art and media karlsruhe, 2018

Light and Code as a Medium in the 21st Century, Leo Villareal, TEDxOrientHarbor, 2017

Artist Talk: Leo Villareal, MIT SA+P, September 13 2016.

Leo Villareal, Murdock Mixology Presentation, Wichita Art Museum, 2016

Leo Villareal, Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series: National Gallery of Art, 2016

Brainwave | Towards the Light: Leo Villareal + Ed Vessel, Rubin Museum of Art, April 22, 2015

Artist Talk: Leo Villareal, Light Show: Auckland Art Gallery, January 31, 2015

The Art and Science of Imagination and Creativity (Panel: Gary Haney, Wylie Dufresne, Walter Isaacson, Leo Villareal), The Aspen Institute, September 3, 2014.

Animating Light, Victor M. Tyler Distinguished Lectureship in Engineering series, Yale University, 2014

The Bay Bridge: From Infrastructure to an Art Piece, Artist Leo Villareal, Google Zeitgeist, 2013

Illumination, Leo Villareal, Autodesk Design Night, 2013

Artist Talk: Leo Villareal, Cornell University, Oct. 22, 2012

Leo Villareal in conversation with Jane Metcalfe, ArtPadSF, May 19, 2012

Artist Talk: Leo Villareal, Telfair Museums, February 27, 2012

Kandinsky Symposium: A Conversation with Frank Stella and Leo Villareal, Phillips Collection, June 11, 2011.

Artist Talk with Leo Villareal | Complex Simplicity: Investigating the Medium of Light, SJMA, March 15, 2010