Leia Immanuel (b. 2004, New York, NY) is a painter based in DUMBO, Brooklyn.

Her work is grounded in observational practice, and draws upon a breadth of personal and interdisciplinary references to reconfigure meaning and experience. Painting is the crucial and slow vehicle through which she explores ideas of memory, privacy, selfhood/objecthood, and place in the digital age.

Email: leiaimmanuel@gmail.com

Education

2026

B.A. Dual Art History and Biology, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
Studied under Randall Exon, Mariel Capanna (Studio)

2025

Studied under Roberto Caracciolo, Temple University Rome Campus, Rome

2025

Plein Air Sketching at the Met with Frank Webster, Art Students League, NY

2025

Painting the City (Urban Plein Air) with Nicholas Evans-Cato, Art Students League, NY

2024

Portrait Sketch in Oil with Dale Zinkowski, Grand Central Atelier, NY

2024

Molecular Biology Research Intern, Devenport Lab, Princeton University, NJ

2023

Figure Master Class with Laura Wenmaekers, Florence Academy of Art, Florence

2017

Studied under Manu Saluja, Long Island Academy of Fine Art, NY

Awards & Exhibitions

2022

Philip Evans Scholarship Opportunity Grant, Swarthmore College, PA

2022

Scholastic Art & Writing Gold Key Winner Exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Gold Key Award, Regional Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Alliance for Young Artists & Writers

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