Juliana Cerqueira Leite (she/they) is a Brazilian sculptor based in New York.
She often works from the inside-out, producing indexes of movement. Her works in sculpture, drawing and video engage moments in which bodies exceed their material, socio-political and cultural containers, becoming disintegrated, in all senses of the word. Cerqueira Leite was awarded the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2019 in support of her solo exhibition Orogenesi at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, Italy. In 2016 she was awarded the Furla Art Prize for her contribution to the 5th Moscow Young Art Biennale. She has exhibited her work in group shows in venues such as the Sculpture Center, (New York), KW Institute (Berlin), the 2017 Venice Biennale Antarctic Pavilion (Italy), the Brazilian Museum of Sculpture and Ecology (MuBE, São Paulo), and Hordaland Kunstsenter for the 2019 Bergen Assembly (Norway). Recent solo shows include Instituto Tomie Ohtake (São Paulo), Nogueras Blanchard (Madrid), Alma Zevi (Venice), Galeria Casa Triângulo (São Paulo), and Proxyco Gallery (New York). Her work has been reviewed in publications such as Artforum and Frieze Magazines, The Brooklyn Rail and the MIT Drama Review.
Cerqueira Leite graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art (UCL) Graduate Sculpture program in 2006, London, as the inaugural recipient of the Kenneth Armitage Sculpture Prize. She is represented in Madrid and Barcelona by Prats Nogueras Blanchard, in London by T.J. Boulting, in São Paulo by Casa Triângulo, in New York by PROXYCO. Cerqueira Leite is a visiting critic for the Yale School of Art Graduate Sculpture program.
AWARDS
2023 Yale School of Art Faculty Personal Practice Award
Nominee PIPA Art Prize, Brazil.
2022 Purdue University Research Travel Grant
2019 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2016 Furla Art Prize – 5th Moscow International Young Art Biennial.
2010 A.I.R. Gallery 2010-2011 Fellowship, New York.
2006 Kenneth Armitage Sculpture Prize, UCL, London.
RESIDENCIES
2022 Fonderia Artística Battaglia Artist Residency, Milan, Italy.
2021 LaCasaPark, Artist Residency, Gardiner, NY, USA, with Georgia b. Smith.
2019 Residency 80121, Naples, Italy.
2018 Pivô Art and Research - São Paulo, Brazil.
2017 1st Antarctic Biennale Expedition - Antarctica
2014 Vancouver Sculpture Biennale International Residency - Canada.
2013 FAAP (Fundação Armando Álvarez Penteado) - São Paulo, Brazil.
2012 4th Marrakesh Biennial Production Residency - Marrakesh, Morocco.
Sculpture Space - Utica, N.Y.
2009 Self-Directed Winter Residency - The Banff Arts Centre, Alberta, Canada.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 (upcoming) Casa Triangulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
(upcoming) In the Negative, HUB Robeson Gallery, Penn State University, USA.
2023 Habitual, Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid, Spain.
2022 DECAPITAR, Proxyco, New York, USA.
2021 The Swamp of Forever Chapter 4: Origin, curated by Carlos Fernández-Pello, Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid, Spain.
2020 Hotel Marajoara, Galeria Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Convergence, Alma Zevi Gallery, Venice, Italy.
2019 Orogenesis, National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy.
2018 Until Different, Arsenal Contemporary, New York. (Upcoming - September)
Dividual, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil.
2017 BLOOM, T.J.Boulting, London.
Solaris, Alma Zevi Gallery, Venice, Italy.
2016 Intransitive, Regina Rex Gallery, Lower East Side, New York.
Juliana Cerqueira Leite, T.J.Boulting Solo Booth at Art Rotterdam, Netherlands.
2014 Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Cass Sculpture Foundation, Sussex.
2013 Positional, Galeria Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
2012 Precede/Proceed, Galleria Lorcan O’Neill, Rome.
Portmanteau, T.J. Boulting, London.
2011 The Climb is Also The Fall, A.I.R. Gallery, DuMBO, New York.
2009 Up Down In Out, Trolley Gallery, Trolley Books, London.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 I Opened the Curtain to See What Lays Behind, Carlier Gebrauer, Berlin, Germany.
Poetics of Encryption, KW Institute, Berlin, Germany.
Ervas Daninhas, Galeria Quadra, curated by Julie Dumont, São Paulo, Brazil.
In Absentia, 601 Artspace, New York, USA.
2023 Kingdom of the Ill, Bolzano Museion, Italy.
Meridiano espíritu fantastico, L’Antica Farinera, Girona, Spain.
How Boundless Are Dreamlands? Women Artists from Latin America, Head of Pond House, Hamptons, USA.
Threshold, 91 Allen Street, New York.
2022 Ópera Citoplasmática, Museu Oscar Niemeyer (MON), Curitiba, Brazil.
Paulina Stasik, Mercedes Llanos, Juliana Cerqueria Leite, Lyles & King, NYC, USA.
Arte natureza: ressignificar para viver, SP Arte 2022, curated by Ana Carolina Ralston, São Paulo, Brazil.
Por muito tempo acreditei ter sonhado que era livre, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, Brazil.
Mouthed Echoes, Lyles & King, New York, USA.
2021 La Vista y El Tacto, Centro Federico Garcia Lorca, Granada, Spain.
Por Um Sopro De Fúria e Esperança, Brazilian Museum of Sculpture and Ecology (MuBE), São Paulo, Brazil.
Her Kind, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, USA.
Last Museum, KW Institute Digital, Berlin, Germany.
Abracadabra, Alma Zevi, Venice, Italy.
2020 The Venice Show, Alma Zevi Gallery, Venice, Italy.
Birth Culture, FrauenMuseum, Hittisau, Austria.
New York Meets Tbilisi: Defining Otherness, curated by Nina Mdivani, Assembly Room, New York City.
2019 Sette Opere per la Misericordia 2019, Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples, Italy.
Portraits: Selections from the Collection, Arsenal Contemporary, Montréal.
Sick & Desiring, with Zoë Claire Miller, Bergen Assembly 2019, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway.
Cut-Out, LMAK gallery, New York.
Dear Amazon: The Anthropocene, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea.
Perverse Furniture, Artspace New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut.
2018 In The Company Of, T.J.Boulting, London.
In Practice: Another Echo, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York.
The Female Gaze, Kunsthaus Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany.
Eye to Eye, Arsenal Contemporary, Bowery, New York.
Body of Evidence, Peninsula Gallery, Redhook, New York.
Prima Materia, La Casa Art Park, Gardiner, Upstate New York.
Emmenagogue Garden, with Zoë Claire Miller, Beverly’s New York.
2017 Space Odyssey: Beyond Material Confinements, Radiator gallery, New York.
Core Remission, Gr_und, Berlin. Curated by Penny Rafferty.
Holiday Home, Alma Zevi, Celerina.
the problem with having a body is that it always needs to be somewhere, The Approach, London.
Antarctic Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2017, Venice.
1st Antarctic Biennale, Antarctica.
2016 Sculptor’s Drawings, Alma Zevi Gallery, Venice, Italy.
She Reconfigured, Center for Performance Research, New York.
The Measure of Our Travelling Feet, Marres Contemporary Art Center, Maastricht, NL.
Manual Override, collaboration with Zoë Claire Miller. The Landing Strip, Neükolln, Berlin.
5th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow.
Now You See Me, TJ Boulting Gallery and Photo London, London.
Frottage, Outlet Gallery, Brooklyn.
Ma, Spring Break Art Show 2016, New York.
2015 Lustwarande 2015, commission of new monumental sculpture, De Oude Warande forest, Tilburg, Netherlands.
Gust, Global Committee, Brooklyn, NY.
2014 2014 Vancouver Biennale, Vancouver B.C. Canada.
Casa Triângulo no Pivô, Pivô Art and Research, São Paulo, Brazil.
2013 Spaced In Spaced Out, Lendi Projects, Celerina, Switzerland.
Material Traces, Leonard and Ellen Bina Gallery, Montréal. Curated by Amelia Jones.
New Directors, Anthology Film Archives, New York.
New Age of Aquarius, DUVE Gallery, Berlin.
A Thin Place, Schönleinstraße 33, Berlin. Curated by Amanda Schmitt.
2012 Higher Atlas, 4th Marrakech Biennial, Morocco.
Art Public | Art Basel Miami Beach. Curated by Christine Kim.
Solo, Electric Studios, St. Leonards, UK
100 Feet, Lo & Behold, London.
Bending Light, CultureFix, New York.
2011 British Art Now, Saatchi Gallery in Adelaide, Australia.
Nothing Ever Touches, Chiles Matar, New York.
From Slapstick to Horror, Latitude Festival, Suffolk, UK.
London International, KCCC, Lithuania.
Polemically Small, Torrance Art Museum, California.
MACO Nuevas Propostas, Mexico City, Mexico. With T.J. Boulting, London.
Waived Gallery, Jack Chiles, New York.
Physical Center, Guest Projects, Yinka Shonibare Studio, London.
2010 Newspeak: British Art Now, Saatchi Gallery, London and Adelaide, Australia.
Bold Tendencies IV, Hannah Barry Gallery, Peckham, London.
A Collective Noun, Faggionato Fine Art, London.
FIT, AllanNederpelt Gallery, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Excalibur Foundry Sculpture Show, Brooklyn.
2009 Subject|Matter, The Cass Sculpture Foundation, Chichester, England.
Boxing Gloves and Bustiers, Soho20 Gallery, New York.
Seven Easy Steps, Horton Gallery, New York.
Bodyscapes, KUBE Gallery, Poole and Weymouth, England.
Return to Reason, HRL Contemporary, Gallery 77, London.
2008 East Wing Collection 8, Courtauld Art Institute. London.
Beyond Body and Gesture, Stephen Ongpin, London.
The Future Can Wait, Truman Brewery, London.
Dis-locate Festival, Ginza Art Lab, Tokyo.
Ethereal, Motdar, Copenhagen.
The Future Was Then So What Now? Scope, New York.
2007 The Future Can Wait, The New London School. Atlantis Gallery, London.
2006 New Figurative Realism, Clapham Art Gallery, London.
The Mouse that Roared, Project 133, London.
2005 Twenty to One, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London.
New Works by Graduates, Slade School of Fine Art, London, Curated by James Roberts.
Young Gods, Clapham Art Gallery. Selected 2004 graduates.
2004 A Little Flat in Kensington, curated by Maria Walsh and Sophie Loss.
Act 03: Disorder, Central Station, London
EDUCATION
2007 MA Drawing Camberwell College of Art, London
2006 MFA Sculpture Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London
2004 BFA Sculpture Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
PRINT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Sánchez, Joaquín Jesús; Juliana Cerqueira Leite: Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid, in Artforum Magazine, March 2024; New York.
Samman, Nadim; Poetics of Encryption: Art in the Technocene. Hatje Cantz, Berlin; 2023.
Codognato, Mario; Samman, Nadim; Hannah, Dehlia; OROGENESIS, exhibition catalogue on occasion of Orogenesis at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, Italy. Trolley Books, London; September 2019.
Churner, Rachel; Juliana Cerqueira Leite: Arsenal Contemporary, New York, in Artforum Magazine, January 2019; New York.
Hannah, Dehlia; Hopeless Utopia, in Frieze Magazine, June 2017.
Griffith, Phillip; Juliana Cerqueira Leite: Intransitive, in The Brooklyn Rail, April 2016; Industry City, New York.
Jones, Amelia; Material Traces: Performativity, Artistic “Work” and New Concepts of Agency, in The MIT Drama Review, Winter 2015, Vol. 59, No. 4: 18-35. MIT Press.
Clark, Robert & Sherwin, Skye; This Week’s New Exhibitions: Juliana Cerqueira Leite and Gary Webb, The Guardian Newspaper, Friday 11, April 2014.
Guglielmino, Giorgio; This is Now: A Geographical Guide to Cutting Edge Contemporary Art, Umberto Allemandi & C., Torino: 2013.
Jones, Ameila; Material Traces, Leonard and Ellen Bina Gallery, Concordia University Press. On occasion of the exhibition Material Traces, 2013.
Samman, Nadim Julien; ‘Juliana Cerqueira Leite – Portmanteau’, Third Text, Routledge, No.121, Wol. 27, Issue 2, March, 2013.
Giles, Ian; ‘The Introduction: Juliana Cerqueira Leite’, Art Licks Magazine, Issue 4. Summer/Fall, London: 2011.
Groves, Nancy; Interview: Physical Center, The Independent Newspaper, London: Jan. 02, 2011
Blatt, Katy Ed.; On Time - The East Wing Collection 8, The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. London; 2008. Published on the occasion of the exhibition On Time – East Wing Collection 8 at the Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2012 Dumbo Arts Center in collaboration with the A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn: more than one at once, a one night women artists’
film and video screening.
2011 Guest Projects, Yinka Shonibare’s space in Hackney, London: PHYSICAL CENTER, a two month program of performance
art, science lectures and film.
2004-3 291 Gallery, Hackney, London: Co-curated Act Art 02, live art, durational performance, video, painting and sculpture show.
LECTURES, CONFERENCES
2019 National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy: In conversation with Dr. Sophia Gotti on occasion of the exhibition Orogenesis.
2018 Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia: The Antarctic Biennale Vision Club conference, moderated by Barbara Imhof.
2017 The Wellcome Collection Library, Anatomical Fictions, with curator Nora Heidorn. On the event of the acquisition of 'A
Potential Space' by the Library.
2016 New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1. The Book, the Woman and the Body Politic with Tatana Kellner, moderated by
Corina Reynolds of Small Editions.
2013 SUNY New Paltz: Artist talk, guest lecturer and tutor for Graduate Sculpture.
2009 KUBE Gallery, Poole: Bodyscapes, Seminar and artist’s talk.
2008 London Knowledge Lab, Birkbeck University: Mystery and Wonder, Play and Discovery: Mathematics and Art as Creative
Activities. Presentation of recent drawing work and speaker in the symposium
Woburn Research Space, UCL London: The Body Project, guest speaker.
Sherborne House, Dorset: Art and Discourse: Engaging with the Body, guest speaker in symposium.
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