Leenda Bonilla - March 2022

Leenda Bonilla is an interdisciplinary artist, arts/cultural producer, and community advocate. Her practice is influenced by her urban/suburban background (born in NYC, raised in The Bronx and Puerto Rico). Leenda develops diaristic projects which focus on the impact of pop culture and social tropes in her experience and communities that conceptualize the intersections of gender, race, and identity. As an “ambiguous beige” artist, Leenda is pulled towards addressing the nuances of colorisms and effects of colonial, patriarchal systems in society and cultural capitalism. Her work in mixed media interprets these ”- isms'' via photography, design, installation, performance, sculpture and collaborations to decolonize the model of the Latinx creative lens which has been primarily male and Eurocentric. Leenda’s ouvres and installation/performance work has been exhibited at Art in Odd Places, (NYC), AS220 (RI), The Bronx Museum of the Arts, El Taller Boricua (NYC), MOLAA (LA), among others. Leenda holds a Masters from the Pratt Institute in Arts/Cultural Management (‘09, Outstanding Merit/Honors with Distinction), and a BA from Manhattan College, Political Science/International Studies and is a proud member of the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC) Leadership Institute Program. leendabonilla.com, @leenda.art - Insta.