The origin of his ideas is abstract. A savage and chaotic stream that he accesses through cultural artifacts with apparent connections between them.
Starting from diverse thematic approaches —which in reality only operate as pretexts— Marz works around the flux of discontinuities that exist between great discussions of our time and all that we experiment in our daily lives but cannot manage to define with words.
His actions become visible through spacial montages that bring objects and subjects together, trying to tell stories.
Lives and works in Monterrey.
Leo Marz has an MFA in new media as part of the program by Transart Institute and Donau Universität in Krems, Austria. He is part of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores (FONCA). He has received several grants including: Programa Jóvenes Creadores del FONCA twice, Colección Jumex, Programa de Estímulo a la Creación y al Desarrollo Artístico (PECDA) and the third edition of the program Bancomer-MACG Arte Actual.
Marz’s most recent exhibitions are They Stare At You From Billions of Years Ago at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey (MARCO) and Pintura contemporánea en México at Museo Amparo (Puebla, Mexico) in 2024, and The Ancient Incident at Mexico City’s Museo Jumex in 2022. His work has also been featured in the Yucatán Biennale, the Emergency Biennale in Chechnya, Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, CCS Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY), Museo de las Américas (Denver, CO), Steve Turner Contemporary (Los Angeles, CA), Espacio Arte Contemporáneo (Montevideo, Uruguay), Museo de Arte Moderno (Mexico City), Museo Universitario de Ciencia y Arte (Mexico City), Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (Mexico City), Casa del Lago UNAM (Mexico City), and MARCO (Monterrey, Mexico), among others. Marz’s work is included in the permanent collection of Fundación M (Mexico City).
He has given several workshops in museums such as Museo de las Américas in Denver; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil in Mexico City and Museo de Arte Manuel Felguérez in Zacatecas. From 2008 to 2012 he was professor at CEDIM in Monterrey.
He co-directed La conversación, a program focused on the transdisciplinary production of contemporary art. He was co-curator in the videoart program Círculos de Confusión: Caos Social y Ficciones Dominantes for Transitio_MX 04.
He was resident curator in Object Not Found where he developed a series of exhibitions, video programs, conferences and created an online forum on discussion and critic on emerging artistic practices in Nuevo León during the first decade of the XXI Century. He was local curator for the XII Bienal FEMSA. For three years he directed Lugar Común, a space for poetic production in Monterrey.
