Leo Mancini-Hresko began his art education in 1999 at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. During a semester abroad in Florence, Italy, Leo found The Florence Academy of Art, where he began studies in 2001.
After graduating in 2005, Leo was asked to stay on at the school, first as an instructor and subsequently director of the school’s drawing program for sculptors. Additionally, Leo taught regular courses in plein-air landscape painting and artist materials until leaving the school in 2011.
Having left his 19th-Century painting studio in Florence, Leo has relocated to his native Massachusetts, now working and teaching from his studio in a mill building in Waltham, MA.
Whether working en plein-air or in the studio Leo works with traditional materials, his own hand-ground paints, canvases and oils.
2013
'Green Noise' Museum of Landscape, Plyos, Ivanovo, Russia
'A Joint Venture' New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
'By Land or Sea' Sloane Merrill Gallery, Boston, MA
2012
'Converge' 25CPW Gallery, New York, NY
All Paintings: Great & Small | Cooley Gallery | Lyme, CT
Regional Exhibit, Guild of Boston Artists, Boston, MA
2011
'Studio Tour' Grenning Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
'Summer Salon' Rarity Gallery, Mykonos, Greece
Regional Exhibit, Guild of Boston Artists, Boston, MA
2010
Group Show Ann Long Fine Art Charleston, SC
Winter Exhibition Grenning Gallery Sag Harbor, NY
2009
Solo Exhibition Ann Long Fine Art Charleston, SC
Contemporary Florentine Realism Cami Gallery Florence, Italy
Florentine Realist Exhibition W.H. Patterson London, England
2008
Realist Art Exhibition Altitude Fine Art Santa Fe, NM
Group Exhibition W.H. Patterson London, England
Group Exhibition Brigham Galleries Nantucket, MA
2007
Solo Exhibition | Ann Long Fine Art | Charleston, SC
Group Exhibition | W.H. Patterson | London, England
European Views: Land, Sea, City | Eleanor Ettinger Gallery | New York, NY
All Paintings: Great & Small Cooley Gallery Lyme, CT
2006
Alumni Exhibition Florence Academy of Art Corsini Family Stables, Florence, Italy
Italian Realism Solomon Gallery Dublin, Ireland
2005
Group Exhibition W.H. Patterson London, England