Juliana Cerqueira Leite is a Brazilian sculptor based in New York. She has exhibited her works in sculpture, drawing and video internationally since graduating from the Slade School of Fine Art (London) in 2006 as recipient of the Kenneth Armitage Sculpture Prize. Working with her own body, often inside of large volumes of material, she engages the complicated histories and possible futures of representing the human form. 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), Saatchi Gallery (London), the 2017 Venice Biennale Antarctic Pavilion, 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.
Education
2007
Masters in Drawing, Camberwell College of Art, Londres
2006
Masters in Sculpture, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, Londres
2004
Graduation in Sculpture, Chelsea College of Art & Design, Londres
1999
Artes Plásticas, FAAP, São Paulo
Solo exhibitions
2023
Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid, Spain.
2022
Decapitar, Proxyco Gallery, New York.
2021
Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid, Spain.
2020
Hotel Marajoara, Galeria Casa Triangulo, São Paulo.
Convergence, Alma Zevi Gallery, Veneza, Italy.
2019
OROGENESIS, Museu Nacional Arqueológico de Napoli, Italy.
Until Different, Arsenal Contemporary, New York
2018
Fratura: Arte Atual, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo.
2017
BLOOM, T.J.Boulting, London, UK.
Solaris, Alma Zevi Gallery, Venice, Italy.
2016
Intransitive, Regina Rex Gallery, Lower East Side, New York.
Juliana Cerqueira Leite, TJ Boulting Solo Booth at Art Rotterdam, Netherlands.
2014
Juliana Cerqueira Leite, Cass Sculpture Foundation, Sussex, England
2013
Positional, Galeria Casa Triângulo, São Paulo.
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.
Biennials and group shows
2023
Eye Body, TJ Boulting, London
Threshold, 91 Allen Street, New York.
2022
Please Come Flying, AIR Gallery, New York.
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, curadoria de 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.
2021
Her Kind, Sargent’s Daughters, New York.
Last Museum, Instituto KW Digital, Berlin.
Abracadabra, Alma Zevi, Venice
2020
Birth Culture, FrauenMuseum, Hittisau, Austria.
Defining Otherness: New York Meets Tbilisi, Assembly Room, NYC, New York.
2019
Portraits: Selections of Work from the Collection, Arsenal Contemporary, Montreal.
Sick and Desiring, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen Assembly 2019, Norway
Perverse Furniture, Artspace New Haven, New Haven.
Dear Amazon, Illmin Museum, Seoul, South Korea
2018
In Practice: Another Echo, Sculpture Center, LIC, New York.
Eye to Eye, Arsenal Contemporary, New York.
2017
Glorious Object, Patrick Parrish Gallery, New York.
Space Odyssey, Radiator Arts Catalyst, LIC, New York.
the problem with having a body is that it always needs to be somewhere, The Approach, London.
Core Remission, Gr_und, Berlin.
Antarctic Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2017, Venice, Italy.
1st Antarctic Biennale, Akademik Vavilov and multiple locations, 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
Awards
2023
Bolsa para projetos e pesquisa de membros do corpo docente.
2022
Bolsa para viagens de pesquisa, Purdue University, Lafayette, EUA.
2019
Bolsa Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York.
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, Kenneth Armitage Foundation, London.
Residencies
2022
Fonderia Artística Battaglia, Milão, Italy
2019
Residency 80121, Napoli, Italy
2018
Pivô Arte e Pesquisa, Residência Artística, São Paulo, Brazil.
2014
Vancouver Sculpture Biennale International Residency, Canada.
2013
FAAP (Fundação Armando Álvarez Penteado), São Paulo, Brazil.
2012
Residência Artística, Marrakesh, Marrocos, pela 4a Bienal de Marrakesh.
Sculpture Space, Utica, N.Y. Residência Artística Autodirigida de Inverno.
2009
Self-Directed Winter Residency, The Banff Arts Centre, Alberta, Canada.
Curatorship
2012
Dumbo Arts Center in collaboration with the A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn: more than one at once, a one night wome artists’ film and video screening.
2011
Guest Projects, Yinka Shonibare’s space in Hackney, London: PHYSICAL CENTER, a two month programa de performances, palestras de ciencia and filmes.
2004-3
291 Gallery, Hackney, London: Co-curated Act Art 02, live art, durational performance, video, painting and sculpture show.
Resilient Objects – Juliana Cerqueira Leite
Juliana Cerqueira Leite – Blog Pivô
O Espaço em Potencial – Dystopia
Codognato, Mario; Hannah, Dehlia; Samman, Nadim. Orogenesis, Trolley Books, London; 2019.
Chuner, Rachel; Juliana Cerqueira Leite: Arsenal Contemporary, New York, in Artforum Magazine, Vol. 57, No. 5, January 2019.
Hannah, Dehlia; Hopeless Utopia, in Frieze Magazine, Issue 188, June 2017.
Griffith, Phillip; Juliana Cerqueira Leite: Intransitive, in The Brookyn Rail, April 2016; Industry City, New York.
Jones, Amelia; Material Traces: Performativity, Artistic “Work” and New Concepts of Agency, in The 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, Vol. 27, Issue 2, March, 2013.
