Leo Valledor

Who is Leo Valledor?

Leo Valledor was a Filipino-American painter who pioneered the Hard-edge painting style. During the 1960s he was a member of the Park Place Gallery in Soho, New York, which exhibited many influential and significant artists of the period. He exhibited in several prominent galleries and museums, like the Graham Gallery, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum. He was the Exhibition Director and teacher at Lone Mountain College. He is a two-time recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Artist Fellowship Grant. He was a leader of the minimalist movement in the 1970s.