Stephane Leonard

Stephane Leonard studied philosophy and art history at the Humboldt University of Berlin from 2001 to 2002. From 2002 to 2007 he studied fine arts at the University of the Arts Bremen. His main focus was on drawing, studying in the class of professor Paco Knöller. Leonard was also a frequent visitor of the video art class under Professor Jean-François Guiton and participated in various courses about Electroacoustic music and Elektronic music and composition. From 2007 to 2008 Stephane Leonard became a master student (honours student) under Paco Knöller. Since 2014 Leonard is a guest lecturer at the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin, where he teaches drawing and sound design at the department of Industrial Design.^{[citation needed]}

• 2007/2008 master student under Paco Knöller
• 2007 winner of the Video Art Prize from the city of Bremen, Germany
• 2008 nominated for the master student scholarship: Junge Kunst Essen, Germany
• 2009 composition journey through South and Eastern Europe with the Endlichen Automaten (Laptop Orchestra Berlin) sponsored by the Robert Bosch Stiftung, the Hungarian cultural capital Pécs and the Goethe-Institut
• 2010 artist In residence at the USF Verftet in Bergen, Norway
• 2010 working grant for the Endliche Automaten (Laptoporchester Berlin) in Pécs, Hungary
• 2011 winner of the Award of Excellence at the Los Angeles Movie Awards for the music video: Bodi Bill – Brand New Carpet
• 2012 Best Music Video Award at the Porto7 Oporto International Film Festival for the music video: Bodi Bill – What
• 2013 exhibition stipend by the city of Berlin for the Galerie im Turm (state run art gallery)
• 2015 artist in residence and exhibition stipend at Maus Habitos in Porto, Portugal
• 2016 exhibition stipend for the Temporäre Galerie in der Quartiershalle Campus Rütli – CR², Berlin