Leo Villareal

Why you should listen

Artist Leo Villareal uses light to create glowing displays and expansive, site-specific works, including The Bay Lights (2013), a 1.8-mile-long installation of 25,000 white LED lights on San Francisco's Bay Bridge, and Illuminated River (2019), a multi-site piece that unites nine bridges along London's River Thames in a single monumental work of public art. His work is featured in the permanent collections of the National Gallery in Washington, DC, The Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Buffalo AKG Museum in Buffalo, NY, among others.