Guests watch as El Paso light artist Leo Villareal's "Star Ceiling" canopy outside the El Paso Museum of Art lights up in Downtown El Paso, Texas, on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025.

Renowned New York light artist Leo Villarreal, who grew up on the border, putting $5 million 'Star Ceiling' outside El Paso Museum of Art in Downtown.

Leo Villareal is a light artist based in New York City. Over the last 20 years, he has exhibited widely in the United States and abroad. His work is in the permanent collections of museums including ...

The Figge Art Museum’s latest exhibition features innovative looks at light, space and technology. Internationally renowned light sculptor Leo Villareal’s “Interstellar” exhibition opens ...

El Paso-raised artist Leo Villareal was in town to participate in the groundbreaking ceremony. Villareal was engaged by the EPMAF to design and permanently install Star Ceiling, ...

Artist Leo Villareal, who is based out of New York and has art installations around the world, recognized the importance of fountains in Kansas City through his “Fountain (KCI)” light sculpture.

Leo Villareal, light artist. The Figge Art Museum began as the Davenport Municipal Art Gallery in 1925, and was established with a gift of 334 artworks from former mayor Charles A. Ficke.

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The artist, Leo Villareal, grew up in El Paso. Villareal is known for the 1.8-mile installation of lights on San Francisco’s Bay Bridge. The cost of the "The Bay Lights" project was estimated at ...

Star Ceiling is Villareal’s second public work in El Paso. The artwork joins Sky, a 2010 commission, on permanent view in the Albert Armendariz, Sr. U.S. Courthouse.