Brave Girl

Leonardo Hidalgo is one of the busiest Miami leading Neo-Pop artists whose work has attracted international acclaim and is collected worldwide for his fine art paintings, memorable portraits of famous faces. Ecuadorian by birth, Hidalgo, has made the United States his home since 1990 and breathes and lives painting as a career ever since. Using the iconography of Pop Culture to its own ends, creating commentary that mimics Pop Art, but also incorporating contemporary “kitsch” imagery and references to daily issues typical of a Miami lifestyle. Leonardo Hidalgo striking first Miami blue-sky impressions after his move to Miami, inspired the notorious ‘Endless Summer’ Collection. Florida pools and its garden sculptures pay homage to a lifestyle of frivolous fulfilment and relaxation and prevails as a reminiscence of iconic tradition. Amazingly, he does not limit his mediums and is widely recognised for his eye popping vibrant colour, glitz and glamour timeless executions. He melds photography, computer graphics, paint and fabric to create his wide variety of individual art pieces. He is one of those artists whose work creates the visual memory of our pop culture. Leonardo Hidalgo is known for having extended the boundaries and traditional means of the printmaking techniques in producing his original 4D cubistic figures combined with the American comic culture and the Neo-Pop graphics. Leonardo Hidalgo recently produced a ‘Pop Flakes Boxes’ Collection to commemorate the Breakfast Cereal Pop Art Nostalgia as a part of consumer culture and mechanical (re)production. He enjoys most the live paintings from the ‘Rock n’ Roll’ and ‘Time of No Innocence’ edition, because he loves people to enjoy his art. Hidalgo’s artistic spirit is to keep on borrowing subjects from everyday life and elevating them to “high art”. Hidalgo lived in Arizona, where he went to ASU Tempe, and then later studied at the Fort Lauderdale Art Institute. Since then he has traveled around Europe, Asia and South America where he further cultivated his art skills. He began painting at a very young age after his grandmother taught him the technical aspects of drawing and painting. His main sources of inspiration are traveling, famous people who have changed the world, music, American culture, photography, history and the magic of everyday life and people. He has been commissioned by corporate, public and private entities, including singer Marc Anthony, Alejandro Sanz, Hillary Clinton, President Martelly, Janine Howard, Enrique Iglesias, Dan Marino, Jim Caviezel and other celebrities. The Art Murals at The Convention Center of Guayaquil, The Jade Miami of Fortune International, The US Open Polo, and has been the official artist of the supercar Experience for the past four years.