Past Exhibitions
Solo: “PLAY 2 WIN: An Open Studio Session by MANNY MANUEL” - AM:PM Gallery - 108, Marcy Ave, Brooklyn, NY April, 2026
Group: “1st Stop: Marcy Ave” - AM:PM Gallery - 108 Marcy Ave, Brooklyn, NY March, 2026
Solo: “MANNY MANUEL” - AM:PM Gallery - 108 Marcy Ave, Brooklyn, NY February, 2026
Fair: “Red Dot Miami”- Mana Wynwood Convention Center - 318 NW 23rd St, Miami, FL December, 2025
Group: “OLEAJE” AM:PM Gallery - 108 Marcy Ave, Brooklyn, NY October, 2025
Solo: “LOVE BOMB” - NYC July, 2025
Solo: “Secret Show 2” - Secret Location - NYC June, 2025
Group: "Emergent Hues: Spring Exhibition" Artfull Walls Gallery - 246 Malcolm X Blvd., New York, NY May, 2024
Solo: "Secret Show" Secret Location - NYC December, 2023
Group: "Synchronous: RISE" LUSH Art Agency - 414 W Broadway, New York, NY March, 2020
Group: "Synchronous: An Immersive Narrative of Collaboration" - Studio 525 - 525 W 24th St., New York, NY January, 2020
Biography
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.