Mark Leonard trained as an artist until deciding to pursue a career in paintings restoration. He began his work as a restorer at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and then moved to Los Angeles where he spent twenty-six years at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Beginning in 2009, he returned to working full-time as an independent artist, until, in 2012, he was invited by the Dallas Museum of Art to become the museum’s first Chief Conservator. In 2017 he returned to California and resumed his focus on his own works.

Paintings conservation resumé.

Museum Exhibitions

2012 - 2013

Reflections on Constable’s Cloud Studies: Paintings by Mark Leonard

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven

Museum Collections

The Yale Center for British Art

Solo Exhibitions

2011

Intersections / Recent Work: Mark Leonard

Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles

2018

Mark Leonard: Myths and Old Masters

Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles

Group Exhibitions

2011

Gallery Selections

Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles

2016

TWO X TWO for Aids and Art

Rachofsky House

2017

Gallery Selections

Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles

2018, 2019

Artists Council Juried Exhibitions

Palm Springs Art Museum

2021

TWO X TWO for Aids and Art

Rachofsky House

October, 2021

Dallas Art Fair

November, 2021

Intersect Palm Springs

February, 2022

Dallas Art Fair

April, 2022

TWO X TWO for Aids and Art

Rachofsky House, Dallas

October, 2022

Intersect Palm Springs

February, 2023

Dallas Art Fair

April, 2023

A Survey Exhibition: Louis Stern Fine Arts Through the Decades

Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles

January, 2024

Dallas Art Fair

April, 2024

Press

Art Daily, “Louis Stern Fine Arts opens exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by Mark Leonard,” October 3, 2018

Janice Kleinschmidt, “Palm Springs Art Conservator Mark Leonard Makes Masterpieces of His Own,” Palm Springs Life, February, 2023, pages 37-39.

Sylviane Gold, New York Times, February 24, 2013

Art in America, February 12, 2013

Patrick Bahners, Frankfurter Allgemine, February 5, 2013

Amy J. Barry, Shore Publishing, December 15, 2012

Lilly Wei review, Art News, December 2012

Steve Doherty, Outdoor Painter, November 12, 2012

Daniel Grant interview, Wall Street Journal, June 27, 2012

Charlotte Eyerman, Intersections / Recent Work

Jeanne Willette review, ArtScene, July, 2011

Christopher Knight review, Los Angeles Times, July 8, 2011

Mark Leonard is represented by

Louis Stern Fine Arts
9002 Melrose Avenue 
West Hollywood, CA 90069

Intersections: recent work Mark Leonard, June 25 - August 6, 2011

Mark W. Leonard, Myths and Old Masters, June 9 - July 14, 2018