Manuel Piedra Jr. (b. 1997, New York) is a Harlem-based Boricua and Ecuadorian artist exploring the subconscious as the most honest form of reality. Drawing from lived experience, his work resists depiction — translating memory, desire, and emotion into layered visual language.
Through acrylic, oil, and mixed media, Piedra creates atmospheric compositions where form and feeling blur. Figures emerge like recollections, shifting between clarity and dissolution. His paintings reveal not the world as it appears, but the truth that lives beneath it — the emotional residue of being human.
Exhibitions
“PLAY 2 WIN: An Open Studio Session by MANNY MANUEL”
AM:PM Gallery
108, Marcy Ave
Brooklyn, NY
April, 2026
“1st Stop: Marcy Ave”
AM:PM Gallery
108 Marcy Ave
Brooklyn, NY
March, 2026
“MANNY MANUEL”
AM:PM Gallery
108 Marcy Ave
Brooklyn, NY
February, 2026
“Red Dot Miami”
Mana Wynwood Convention Center
318 NW 23rd St
Miami, FL
December, 2025
“OLEAJE”
AM:PM Gallery
108 Marcy Ave
Brooklyn, NY
October, 2025
“LOVE BOMB”
NYC
July, 2025
“Secret Show 2”
Secret Location
NYC
June, 2025
"Emergent Hues: Spring Exhibition"
Artfull Walls Gallery
246 Malcolm X Blvd.
New York, NY
May, 2024
"Secret Show"
Secret Location
NYC December, 2023
"Synchronous: RISE"
LUSH Art Agency
414 W Broadway
New York, NY
March, 2020
"Synchronous: An Immersive Narrative of Collaboration"
Studio 525 - 525 W 24th St.
New York, NY
January, 2020