About the Artist
Leo Grucza was born in Erie, Pennsylvania. He studied painting for four years at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, then spent the next three years at Tulane University, New Orleans, earning an MFA in Painting. He received two NEA grants, in 1982 and 1983, and spent a year painting in Rome after receiving a Tiffany Foundation Grant. He was appointed Associate to the Center for Advanced Studies, University of Illinois, 1984-1985. His work has been shown in the Corcoran Biennial, Washington, D.C. and the Art Institute of Chicago. He has exhibited in Boston, Chicago, New York, St. Louis and abroad. His last solo exhibition was in 2004 at the Gallery Ü, Cleveland, Ohio. See additional entries listed under Exhibitions.
He studied painting at Cleveland, working representationally, then experimented with abstraction while a graduate student at Tulane. He taught courses in painting, drawing, and more recently, computer imaging at the School of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is presently painting full-time.