Leonard Koscianski was born in 1952, in Cleveland, Ohio. A student of R. Buckminster Fuller, and noted American painter Wayne Theibaud, he received his Bachelor’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Art (1977) and his Master’s degree from the University of California, Davis (1979).

He has exhibited his artwork throughout the United States and Europe. He is represented by the OK Harris Gallery in New York, the Carl Hammer Gallery in Chicago, and the Robert Berman Gallery in Los Angeles.

His artwork is to be found in many public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum, and the Chicago Art Institute. It has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Art News, Art Forum, and Art in America.

He is a popular professor and speaker, who has recieved numerous awards including the National Endowment for the Art’s Individual Artist Fellowship, and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Fellowship. He lives and works in Annapolis, Maryland.