Leonardo Nuñez, painter, muralist, printmaker, and teacher, resides and works in Lompoc, California. He received his Master’s degree in fine arts from the University of California, Santa Barbara and he has been working as a printmaker for about thirty-five years. Of the various printmaking media, Nuñez works in reduction color linocut, etching, and mezzotint.

Over a five-year period beginning in 1995, Nuñez visited all the missions in California and created etchings of each of the twenty-one missions. He also designs wine labels in linocut and has painted large murals in Lompoc.

For about nine years, Nuñez volunteered with the California Youth Authority as a teacher of drawing and painting. He taught kids incarcerated at the Los Prietos Boy Camp in Santa Barbara County and was later recognized by the County Board of Supervisors for his work.

Leonardo Nuñez was included in the 2029 exhibition West Coast Woodcut at the Maryhill Museum in Goldendale, Washington, and he exhibits at the Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival.