Juliana Cerqueira Leite
"Spread", 2021
Graphite and luminance color pencils on archival paper
13 ⅜ x 9 13/16 inches (34 x 25 cm)
Courtesy of the Artist and Proxyco Gallery

Selected by Priscila Hudgins

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 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. 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, Marres House for Contemporary Culture (Maastricht, NL), and Hordaland Kunstsenter for the 2019 Bergen Assembly. Recent solo shows include Instituto Tomie Ohtake (São Paulo), Nogueras Blanchard (Madrid), Alma Zevi (Venice), Galeria Casa Triângulo (São Paulo), and Arsenal Contemporary (New York). Her work has been reviewed in publications such as Artforum and Frieze Magazines, The Brooklyn Rail and the MIT Drama Review.

Juliana Cerqueira Leite was recently awarded the 2016 Furla Art Prize at the 5th Moscow Young Art Biennale. Leite has exhibited in group shows internationally at the Saatchi Gallery and Courtauld Art Institute (London), Outlet Gallery (Bushwick) and the Marres House for Contemporary Culture (Maastricht, NL). Solo shows include T.J. Boulting Gallery (London), Galleria Lorcan O’Neill (Rome), Galeria Casa Triângulo (São Paulo), Regina Rex and AIR Gallery (New York) where she was awarded the AIR Fellowship in 2010. Leite graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art MFA (London) in 2006, as recipient of the Kenneth Armitage Sculpture Prize.