Photo by Béatrice Vallières

Artist & Educator

Aleo Landeta (they/them) is a trans and mixed-race visual artist and educator based in Oakland whose practice spans drawing, painting, installation, and public programming. Their work centers queer joy as liberation, drawing from lived experience and the communities that have held space for them to live authentically — and has been exhibited at MACLA, Bedford Gallery, Berkeley Art Center, and Jonathan Carver Moore, among others, with work held in the permanent collection of the Bakersfield Museum of Art. Recent support includes the SoEx Alternative Exposure Grant (2025), the King Artist Residency (2024), and the Homebody Fellowship at Ma's House & BIPOC Art Studio (2022).

Solo & Two Person Exhibitions

  • Soft Portals, 120710 Gallery, Berkeley, CA; April 2026

  • Entranced Traces, Mighty Mighty Studio, Oakland, CA; September 2025

  • Ghosts in the Valley, Rinconada Gallery, Palo Alto, CA; June 2025

  • We Both Laughed in Pleasure, Jonathan Carver Moore, San Francisco, CA; August 2024

  • Figure Studies, Salesforce Tower, SF, CA; May 2022

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • San Francisco Art Fair, Micki Meng,San Francisco, CA; April 2025

  • Broken Boxes, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM; September 2024

  • Resonantly Me, Bakersfield Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA; June 2024

  • Just Another June, Root Division, San Francisco, CA; June 2024

  • Intersecting Visions, Upper Market Gallery, San Francisco, CA; March 2024

  • Metamorphosis, Mercury20 Gallery, Oakland, CA; January 2024

  • About Face, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA; April 2023

  • Queer-ennial: A Story of Armor, MACLA, San Jose, CA; September 2023

  • What Remains, Schlomer Haus Gallery, San Francisco, CA; August 2023

  • Breaking Bread, MACLA, San Jose, CA; June 2023

  • Holding / Ceremony, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA; November 2022

  • Ma’s House Alumni, Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio, Southampton, NY; July 2022

Lectures, Panels, Presentations

  • Holding / Ceremony, Berkeley Art Center, Artist Talk; November 2022—Berkeley, CA

  • Ma’s House Artist-in-Residency, Podcast; August 2022—Virtual

  • Foot Hill College, Artist Talk; June 2022—Virtual

  • Artists’ Adaptability Circles Program Panel and Discussion, Panelist; November 2021—Virtual

  • Emergence 2021: Practical is Radical, Emerging Arts Professionals, SFBA, Panelist; June 2021—Virtual

  • Careers in the Arts, Contemporary Jewish Museum, Panelist; February 2020—San Francisco, CA

  • The Power of Storytelling, Diversity and Equity Workshop (LHNS), Lecture; November 2019—San Francisco, CA

  • Emptying Out Our Pockets: Mapping Our Interconnected Journeys, Inventing Our Future, Presenter; June 2019—Oakland, CA

  • Visual Journals: A Multifaceted Practice, National Art Education Association Conference, Presenter; March 2019—Boston, MA

  • Arts-Based Research in Middle and High School Art, National Art Education Association Pre-Conference, Presenter; March 2018—Seattle, WA

Residencies

  • Kala Art Institute Artist-in-Residence—Berkeley, CA; December 2024 - March 2025

  • King Artist-in-Residence—Palo Alto, CA; May 2024

  • Ma’s House Artist-in-Residency Homebody Fellowship—Southampton, NY; July 2022

  • La Maison Verte Artist-in-Residency—Marnay-sur-Seine, France; July 2022

  • Social Studies Residency—Colusa, CA; July 2019

  • University of Hawaii Mural Residency—Waikiki, HI; July 2018

  • SKOPART Residency—Skopelos, Greece; July 2015

Education

Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

Masters of Arts in Art Education—2017

Thesis—Visual Research Journals: A Space for Doing

University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

Bachelor of Arts in Photography; Studio Art Major, Art History Minor—2010

Art History Program: Paris, France, 2009