Leonor Sousa is a visual artist born in Lisbon (Portugal), where she currently resides and works.
Her work develops with a focus in the fields of painting, performance and installation, through which she explores and researches the notions of space, architecture and trajectory. By creating geographic gestures through essayistic methods, she questions the human experience in space through states of "being in" and "existing where".
Education
Currently doing a Masters in Painting at the Faculty of Fine-Arts of Lisbon
2021 Artistic Individual Course, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden
2019-2020 Exchange programme, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine-Arts, School of Visual Arts, Copenhaga, Dinamarca
2016-2020 Bachelor in Painting, Faculty of Fine-Arts of the University of Lisbon, Portugal
Exhibitions
2024 "Pátio Interior", collective exhibition, Galeria Campo Pequeno, Lisboa, Portugal
2023 "O Enredo", Solar dos Zagallos, Sobreda, Portugal
2022 Prémio D. Luís às Artes, Salvaterra de Magos, Portugal
2022 FUSO Videoart Festival- selected artist, Maat, Lisboa, Portugal
2022 Amazonas, collective exhibition, Graça, Lisboa, Portugal
2022 Vent Space Salon, collective exhibition, Talin, Estónia
2022 Fábrica Braço de Prata, LisbonWeek’22, Lisboa, Portugal
2022 26 mapas para 26 trabalhadores, Site-specific, Rua Capitão Leitão, LisbonWeek’22, Lisboa, Portugal
2022 Red, CPBC, LisbonWeek’22, Lisboa, Portugal
2022 Genesis, exposição colectiva, ArrozEstúdios, Lisboa, Portugal
2021 Coletivo Emergente, collective exhibition, Fátima, Portugal
2021 Collective Exhibition Painting Finalists FBAUL, Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes, Lisboa, Portugal
2021 “Festa das Artes e Ideias de Seia”, collective exhibition, Seia, Portugal
2021 “Playscape”, collective exhibition with Rita Leitão, PrismaEstúdioLx, Lisbon, Portugal
2021 “I don't draw maps to return”, arte in situ, Galeria Penelope, Lisbon, Portugal
2020 Virtual Exhibitions of Finalists of Painting from the Faculty of Fine-Arts
2018 “12x12” Galeria Arte Graça, collective exhibition Lisbon, Portugal
2018 “I owe you the truth”, collection exhibitions of Fine-Arts Students, Lisbon, Portugal
2016 Students exhibition, Galeria DinRic, Oeiras, Portugal
2014 Teacher and students exhibition , Centro Cultural Casapiano Lisbon, Portugal
Other experiences
2022 Participation in the Performance “Jantar de Família”, Rita Leitão, Carpe Diem Exhibition, Lisbon, Portugal
2022 Mercado P'la Arte, Prata Riverside Village, Lisbon, Portugal
2022 Translation II Course , Escrever Escrever, Lisbon, Portugal
2021 Translation I Course, Escrever Escrever, Lisbon Portugal
2021 Mercado P’la Arte, Prata Riverside Village, Lisbon, Portugal
2021 Participation in the Performance “Jantar de Família”, Rita Leitão, Casa da Dona Laura Itinerante, Casa do Capitão, Lisbon, Portugal
2021 Course “O Forro da Arte” with the artist Vasco Araújo
2020 Online Course -Moma: What is Contemporary Art?
2013-2016 Painting lessons at Galeria DinRic, Oeiras, Portugal
2015 Galeria DinRic- Workshop “Portrait and human firgure”, Oeiras, Portugal
Work Experience
2022 LisbonArtWeekend- Production Assistant, Lisboa, Portugal
2022 Visual Arts teacher, Lisbon, Portugal
2021 ECA teacher at Associação Tempos Brilhantes, Lisbon, Portugal
2020-2021 Engraving workshops at Fábrica Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal
2018-2020 Visual Arts teacher at Escola de Artes Pedro Serrenho, Lisbon, Portugal
Publications
2022 Maat Website, Selected Artist for FUSO Videoart Festival
2022 Revista Visão, presentation as resident artist LisbonWeek’22
2021 Exhibition Catalogue: Painting Graduates 2019/2020, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisboa, Portugal
2021 Exhibition Catalogue "Festa das Artes e Ideias de Seia", Seia, Portugal
Residências Artísticas
2022 LisbonWeek’22, Marvila, Lisboa, Portugal
Collections
Private collections, Portugal, Spain, France