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LEOPOLDO GOÛT is a multidisciplinary artist, celebrated writer, and visionary filmmaker whose work spans literature, television, film, and immersive art. Born in Mexico City and trained at London’s prestigious Central Saint Martins School of Art, Goût's creations have been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide. As a novelist, Goût has penned critically acclaimed works, including Genius, Ghost Radio, Monarca, and the award-winning Piñata. Through his imprint, Leopoldo & Co. (in partnership with Atria/Simon & Schuster), he has championed new literary voices while continuing to push creative boundaries in his own writing. His latest literary ventures include FutureYOU by Intel’s former futurist Brian David Johnson (HarperCollins) and a memoir by Judge Rosemary Aquilina (Audible/Hello Sunshine). His illustrated novel Monarca (HarperOne) is currently being adapted into an animated film and immersive art experience in collaboration with Selena Gomez and Alfonso Cuarón. Goût's storytelling extends seamlessly into multi-platform projects. His latest venture, Pe$os: The Rise and Fall of a Border Family (debuting November 28 on Audible Originals), spans podcasting, print, digital publishing, and television. His 2023 horror novel Piñata (TorNightfire) was heralded by Esquire as one of the year’s Top 10 Horror Novels, and he is now adapting it into a feature film.
Goût's work in film and television is expansive and influential. Alongside his brother, award-winning director Everardo Goût, he serves as showrunner for American Jesus (The Chosen One) on Netflix, based on Mark Millar’s comic. His projects include No Man’s Land (Starz) and Eyes of the Queen, currently in development with Monumental TV (UK). As an executive producer, Goût has left his mark on major documentary projects, including Netflix’s Filthy Rich and its Critics Choice-winning sequel Ghislaine Maxwell: Filthy Rich. He also produced Sony Pictures Classics’ documentary on Carlos Santana, in collaboration with Imagine Entertainment. Additionally, he was a founding producer on Aaron Sorkin’s Oscar-nominated Molly’s Game, and has credits in Instinct (CBS), Zoo (CBS), and Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (Lionsgate/Participant Media). His first feature, Days of Grace, debuted at Cannes and won 22 awards, including 11 from the Mexican Academy. In 2023, Goût produced Marlon James’s television debut Get Millie Black (Channel 4 & HBO), which premiered on November 28 to critical acclaim, boasting a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Goût is currently in production on two major documentary films—one in Oaxaca, the other in Mongolia—as well as multiple film and television projects. His latest solo art exhibition, a multimedia, cross-disciplinary showcase, was on display at Povos Gallery in Chicago and ran through January 2025. A Fellow at Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination, Gout is developing Monarca as his most ambitious immersive and experiential project to date. He has also been an invited lecturer at Columbia University, NYU, UNAM, El Tec de Monterrey, Faena Rose, and other prestigious institutions, where he shares insights on art, film, and creative storytelling. Dividing his time between New York City, Mexico City, and Oaxaca, Leopoldo Gout continues to redefine storytelling across mediums—bridging the worlds of contemporary art, literature, film, and technology with his ever-evolving creative vision. Leopoldo is represented by CAA. His visual artwork is represented by Povos Gallery. He can be found on Instagram @leopoldoleopoldo.
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(Via Phillips) Leopoldo Goût’s Stag Hurricane, shaped entirely from memory, transcends traditional representation. The deer emerges as a symbolic glyph—inscribed with his personal mythology and ancestral memory. In his studio, materials speak through tension and vibration: bronze crackles with atomic recollection and textures whisper songs passed down through bloodlines. Goût’s practice functions as an archaeology of sensation, excavating layered strata of memory, myth, and lived experience.
A singular encounter—locking eyes with a wild deer—marked a profound turning point in Goût’s life. Through the recurring imagery of stags—as well as other migratory symbols like whales and butterflies—Goût explores the act of crossing. As an immigrant, he constructs not from division, but from movement; from the reimagining of thresholds. In a time of militarized borders and proliferating walls, his sculptures offer quiet defiance. They insist that memory migrates, that myth is mobile, and that belonging is not fixed, but forged across time.
The deer he sculpts inhabit a liminal space: innocence fused with wildness, memory tangled with dream, lineage braided with invention. This exclusive Dropshop release precedes Leopoldo Goût’s upcoming solo presentation at the 2025 Armory Show in New York with Povos Gallery. Learn more
Every autumn, a miracle happens. A monarch butterfly born in Canada flies more than 3,000 miles across North America. It does so over land it has never seen, in the reverse direction of the streams of humans traveling steadily north. It’s destination: the rainforest of Mexico. It is a journey filled with peril. Many will never make it, and those that do will never return. No butterfly among them has ever made the journey before, and none will again. In the hands of artist, writer, filmmaker Leopoldo Goût, the tale of the monarch butterfly’s migration from North America to the Mexican town of Contepec gets the immersive, you-are-there treatment. Each monarch butterfly was hand-painted by Goût, then brought into 3D space in collaboration with multimedia artist Matt Bruinooge.
An epic struggle for survival that is also a story of astonishing beauty and marvel is told in an immersive video installation. A groundbreaking work of I-can’t-believe-what-I’m-seeing poetry, SWARM is also a drama about a great migration that explores the value of community, environmentalism, and, ultimately, transformation. The first in a series of installations, SWARM will expand to include holographic projections, volumetric television, music, scent and other visual sensorial technologies, enveloping room-sized installations blurring the lines between vision and experience; the real and the virtual. Learn more
Elefante is a solo exhibition showcasing the multimedia works of renowned Mexican artist, author, and filmmaker Leopoldo Gout. With a bold embrace of maximalism, Elefante spans various mediums, including textiles, bronze sculptures, paintings, video, and sound. The exhibition delves into Gout’s long-standing fascination with contradictions, dreams, and the ephemeral. International in scope and deeply rooted in the artist’s decades-spanning career, Elefante offers a narrative of image-making as a journey of migration. There will be virtual tours and the exhibition will travel next year to Miami, London, and are in discussions with Paris, LA and NYC.
The exhibition is accompanied by a personal ambient soundtrack, Telar Adentro, composed by Oriana Gidi and Leopoldo Gout. This soundtrack will be available for pre-order on limited-edition vinyl records. Pre-order your exclusive "Telar Adentro" vinyl here.
In addition to the exhibition, a career-spanning retrospective book and an international documentary celebrate Gout’s dynamic return to the contemporary art world after more than a decade. You can read a captivating essay by Booker Prize-winning novelist Marlon James, featured in Leopoldo’s new exhibition catalogue, here.
The five-episode HBO Original limited series Get Millie Black created and executive produced by Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James, and executive produced by Leopoldo Gout, debuts Monday, November 25 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT) on HBO. The series will be available to stream on Max and will also air on Channel 4 next year. Ex-Scotland Yard detective Millie-Jean Black returns to Kingston to work missing persons cases, soon finding herself on a quest to save a sibling who won’t be saved, to find a child who can’t be found, to solve a case that will blow her world apart and prove almost as tough to crack as Millie Black.