Description
Juliana Cerqueira Leite (born 1981) is a Brazilian/American sculptor based in New York. She has exhibited her works in sculpture, photography, 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 history, contexts 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. Cerqueira Leite 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, Marres House for Contemporary Culture (Maastricht, NL), and Hordaland Ku
