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Catarina Leitão

OPEN CLASS
OCTOBER 21TH OF 2025, 11AM
ROOM 26 OF EP.2 – ESAD.CR

Catarina Leitão, artist and professor at the College of Arts of the University of Coimbra, will give an open lecture on her work. Her work is structured around drawing, sculpture, installation, and book. Processes of construction, adaptability, and hybridity integrate a practice through which Catarina proposes the idea that human and nature, artifice and nature, culture and nature exist in continuity. Between the twodimensional and the three-dimensional, the artificial and the natural, assembly and disassembly, her spatial vision sustains a language of sculpture using installation and drawing.

Catarina Leitão (Stuttgart, 1970) is an artist. Her favored mediums are drawing, sculpture, installation and the book.
Leitão has been exhibiting her artwork since 1992. Among the awards and residences bestowed to her, stand out the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 2009, Center for Book Arts, 2007, Triangle Arts, 2006, Sharpe Foundation, 2004, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 2003, Pollock-Krasne Foundation Grant, 2001, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Luso-American Foundation.
Leitão has a PhD from Colégio das Artes da Universidade de Coimbra, 2022, an MFA from the Hunter College City University of New York (2000), and graduated in Painting at the FBAUL, Lisbon (1993). She taught at ESAd.cr (2011-24), and teaches in the PhD program of Colégio das Artes da Universidade de Coimbra since 2024.