Kevin Ledo’s paintings often flirt with prevalent persuasive imagery and ideologies. His work mainly revolves around idealism, beauty and divinity but at times is satirical and playful. The more accomplished bodies of work include “The Guiding Light” and “Desire” series which celebrate and scrutinize persuasive content and imagery found mass media.

In the series “The Guiding Light”, Ledo aims to explore the phenomenon that is the manipulation of truth by rampant consumer driven institutions and how it’s comparable to the religious authorities during the pre-age of enlightenment. Ledo states that both institutions have constructed their own truths and manipulated them to their own self serving ends. This body of work draws parallels between their tactics of persuasion by use of icon worship and the influential dogma surrounding it that allude to or state that people are inadequate, impure or incomplete and can only reach fulfillment by following a prescribed doctrine.

Ledo's paintings are internationally collected and have been on display in Taiwan, Canada and the United States. Ledo is a first generation Portuguese Canadian, born and raised in Montreal, where he completed Illustration and Design at Dawson College. Over the past few years Ledo has been traveling and living in different parts of Canada and Asia. Ledo is presently based out of Montreal.