Born
Santiago, Chile


Education
1995, Masters of Fine Arts. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
1991, Bachelor of Fine Arts. Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA

Awards and Recognitions
1998 Elected to Exhibitions Committee of Side Street Projects, a non profit arts organization, Santa Monica, CA
1996 Elected to "USC School of Fine Arts Centennial Celebration" committee, to help plan, design, and coordinate the 100th year anniversary of the school.
1992 Elected to Board of Directors of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA
1990 Awarded the "Lorser Feitelson-Helen Lundenberg Arts Foundation, Mentor/Student Award"
1989 Juror’s Award at the "New American Talent: The Sixth Exhibition", juried by Laura Trippi.


Solo & Collaborative Exhibitions
2001 "The Space in Between", solo show, Deep River Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000 "Remembering & Forgetting", solo show, Whittier College Fine Arts Gallery, January, Whittier, CA
1999 "Leonardo Bravo/Christine Taber", two person show, Art Place, Culver City, CA
1995 "Leonardo Bravo", solo show, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991 "Neither Here Nor There", a collaborative installation with Ann Page, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA


Selective Group Exhibitions
2001 "Cross Pollination", Holland Tunnel Gallery, New York, NY, Curated by Susan Joyce and Merry Lynn McCorkle.
2000 "Projections: Intermission Images", Summer 2000, Laemmle Grande Fourplex Theatres, Los Angeles, CA, organized by Side St. Projects.
1999 "Millenial Tension", group show, POST Wilshire, Los Angeles, CA
1999 "Adasteraperaspera", group show of celestial art, Empiric Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999 "It’s Snowing Art in LA", Rico Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1998 "Getty Underground", staff art exhibit, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1998 "Tweener", Spanish Kitchen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Curated by Brad Spence and Loren Sandvik
1998 "One Night Stand" @ Abel Joseph Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
1998 "Group Show", Gallery 207, West Hollywood, CA
1997 "G.D.I. (pronounced giddy)", group show, Sweeney Art Gallery, University California Riverside, Riverside, CA
1997 "G.D.I. (pronounced giddy)", Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA, Curated by John O’Brien, full color catalogue available.
1997 "One Night Stand", group show, Farmer’s Daughter Motel, Los Angeles, CA
1997 "Are We Touched: Identities From Outer Space", group show, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA. Full color catalogue published.
1997 "Dogs and Childhood", Striking Distance, a virtual gallery/web page on the internet, curated by Robert Wedemeyer.
1997 "Painting: Group Exhibitions", LASCA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996 "They Came From Beyond", Malibu Art Ranch, Malibu, CA, curated by Brady Westwater.
1996 "Codpiece", Griffin Linton Gallery, Venice, CA, curated by Meg Linton.
1996 "Urban Heartifacts", Spanish Kitchen Studios, Los Angeles, CA, "One Hundred Dollar Show", Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996 "Gen Art, Summer Group Exhibition", Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, curated by Melissa Chappel.
1995 "December Twentieth", Richard Heller Galllery, Santa Monica, CA, curated by Bill Radawec.
1995 "USC’s Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibiton", Bergamot Station, Gallery B5, Santa Monica, CA
1995 "Broadcast: A Collection of Unique Art", Rio Hondo Colllege Art Gallery, Whittier, CA, curated by Kim Abeles.
1994 "An Artificial Nature", Director’s Guild of America, Los Angeles, CA
1994 "House of Styles", group show, TRI Gallery, Hollywood, CA
1994 "Sawtelle", group show, Domestic Setting Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993 "Tiny", Leonard Bravo, Steve Roden, Holly Wilder, Project Box, a show organized by Brady Westwater.
1993 "FAR Bazzar bQ", group show, Sue Spaid Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993 "Natural Law", group show, California Lawyers for the Arts, Santa Monica, CA, curated by Maura Bendett.
1993 "8th Annual Benefit Auction", Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1992 "A Small Show", 1529 Wellesley Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, curated by Bill Radawec.
1992 "Leonard Bravo, Ann Carter, Kathleen Johnson", TRI Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1992 "13th Annual Art Auction", Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA
1992 "Breaking Barriers: Revisualizing the Urban Landscape", Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
1992 "Breakdown", inaugural exhibition, FoodHouse Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1992 "7th Annual Benefit Auction", Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1992 "Boomerang", benefit group show, Thomas Solomon’s Garage, Los Angeles, CA
1991 "Jest", group show, Opus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991 "Themes: Social & Political", Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA
1990 "Introductions", William Grant Still Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA
1990 "Parallel Realities", Transamerica Center Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
1990 "Fragments: Alternative Contemporary Directions", Social and Public Art Resources Center (SPARC), Venice, CA
1990 "New American Talent: The Sixth Exhibition", Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX. Juried by Laura Trippi, curator The New Museum, New York.


Reviews & Publications
"Bumpy" by Kerry Kugelman, ArtIssues, Nov/Dec 1995, pg. 42
"Art Reviews" by Susan Kandel, The Los Angeles Times, Friday, October 6, 1995, Calendar section.
"Painting the Town" by David A. Greene, Los Angeles Reader, September 29, 1995. Vol.17, No 51.
"On View-Los Angeles" by Liz Markus, New Art Examiner, Dec. 1993, pg. 25.
"The Los Angeles Art World’s New Image" by Roberta Smith, The New York Times, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 1992, pg. & C12.
Featured in Chicano and Latino Artists of Los Angeles, photography by Alejandro Rosas, 1992. "Art Pick of the Week" by Peter Frank, LA Weekly, March 15-21 1991, Vol. 13, No. 18.
"Where Humans Tread" by Victoria Martin, Artweek, Feb. 28, 1991, pg. 11."


Published Writings
1996 Zing Magazine, New York, NY, "Charles Long", Autumn/Winter 96-97, pg. 200


Curatorial
2002 Survival Skills, Park Paradise Complex, Scottsdale, AZ
2002 Survival L.A., Raid Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 "Shifters; frequencies, intervals, passages", Art Place Gallery, Mar Vista, CA
1998 "Luminous", co-curator with Christopher Miles, Ikon Fine Arts Ltd, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
1999 "Happy Trails", co-curator with Christopher Miles, for UCSB College of Creative Studies Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
1999 "Hubcap Diamond Star Halo", co-curator with Christopher Miles, for Claremont College School of Arts Gallery, Claremont, CA
1999 "Daydreaming", curator for George’s Gallery, Los Feliz, CA
1997-99 "One Night Stand", curatorial project with Michael Arata at various motel locations around Los Angeles.
1996 "Currents In Abstraction", curator for Ikon Ltd Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
1994 "Amy Adler, John Elder, Tom Osborn", curator for CACAO, Los Angeles, CA
1992 Co-founder of FoodHouse, an alternative artists run space, Santa Monica,
1990 "Law of Desire", curator; for Future Perfect Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1990 "Provisional Proof", curator; for Opus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Collections
Andrew Sye
Amy Allina
Jennifer Rucker
Lisa Kudrow
John Souza
Hayley Brooke Markus
Dr. Christina Nagami, D.D.S.
Ron Faranovich
Diane & Lon Isaacson
Johnson Hartig
Tricia Todd
Tom Peters
Bobby Berger & Judy Ferrari
Richard Stein
Habib Kheradyer
Ivan Morley & Amy Darza
Richard Kanarik
Anders Lansing
Colin Gardner
Allison Burnett
Stephanie Walter
Geoffrey Yarema
Edward Judd
Lori Thrun
Constance Mallinson
Ann & George Page
Jeri Coates
Patti Dunham
Edward Den Lau
Marnie Weber
John Rose
Miles Lightwood
Thomas Hartman
Robert Gunderman
Kathleen Johnson
Kirsten Tillisch