Manuela Caicedo

81 Leonard Gallery is pleased to present Manuela Caicedo's first solo exhibition Asistente de Morfeo. Caicedo's work hovers in the space between night and day, between looking and seeing. Classical oil painting is applied with the freedom of dreaming; imagination becomes ethereal image in transparent washes, luminous glazes, and fiery hues. Bridging intuition with philosophy, mythology, and art history, Caicedo's paintings merge inner and outer worlds, appearing in various states of clarity or blissful confusion.

Manuela Caicedo (b. 1993, Bogotá, Colombia) is a New York-based artist. In 2022, she earned a degree in Visual Arts from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, where she received a Meritorious Thesis distinction for her first film, I Left Strawberries in My Pocket Until the Day the Suns Go Out. In 2024, she completed an MFA in Painting at the New York Academy of Art, supported by the Elizabeth Greenshields Grant and the Academy Scholar Award. That same year, she undertook a residency at the University of Notre Dame in Kylemore, Ireland, and was awarded the Chubb Fellowship—the highest honor granted by the New York Academy of Art to its alumni—culminating in the Chubb Fellows Show 2025 (New York).

In 2025, she presented Las Dragonas at ARTBO | Salas (Bogotá), participated in Mínima Expresión at Galería Policroma (Medellín), took part in Chubb Fellows and Friends at the Green Family Art Foundation (Dallas), and exhibited at Art Basel 2024 and 2025 (Miami) for the second consecutive year through the Chubb Fellowship. In December 2025, she participated in Between Myth and Memory at 81 Leonard (New York), and in February 2026 in Lenguajes de Papel at Galería El Museo (Bogotá, Colombia).