Through his paintings, drawings, ceramics, and works in a host of other media, Nicolás Leiva presents an ethereal world that is true to a mystic vision, and sustained by a material practice delighting the viewer's senses. Leiva was born in Argentina and lives in Miami, Fl since the 1990s. His ceramic practice was perfected in Faenza, Italy. He now has his ceramic atelier in Miami.

Innovative in his use of ceramic and paint on unusual surfaces, Nicolas Leiva works with a vocabulary of pure fantasy and cosmic inspiration. Bright colors and primal designs are the signature result of this artist's expressionistic technique. Embedded in Leiva's collection of forms and surface designs is a symbolic language that contains the narrative of an ethereal realm, but underlying his tales of paradise is a very real physical practice that is social, as well. In his paintings, drawings, and vessels, dwellings shift shape from boats, houses, to flying carriages in a flower-filled realm that seems to exist somewhere past the margins of a Mayan codex.