Juliana Cerqueira Leite represented by PROXYCO

Juliana Cerquiera Leite, THROUGH, 2022  

Aquaresin, glassfiber, wax, stainless steel, pigment, burlap  
11 x 22 1/2 x 13 in 
28 x 57 x 33 cm

Juliana Cerquiera Leite, DOWN 2, 2022  

Aquaresin, glassfiber, wax, stainless steel, pigment, burlap  
86 x 34 in  
218.44 x 86.36 cm

Juliana Cerqueira Leite (she/they) is a Brazilian sculptor based in Brooklyn, New York. 

She often works from the inside-out, producing indexes of movement. Her works in sculpture, drawing and video engage moments in which bodies exceed their normative material, socio-political and cultural containers, transforming, becoming foreign, highly permeable, or disintegrating. Her works exist in opposition to disembodiment as a tool of systemic control. 

Cerqueira Leite was recently awarded the Atelier Calder Residency and will be based in France between September and December 2025. Her solo exhibition Outras simetrias is currently on view at Casa Triângulo gallery in São Paulo, Brazil. Her 16mm film Labor was recently exhibited as part of the Mono No Aware film festival in New York’s Anthology Film Archives. She was awarded the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2019 in support of her solo exhibition Orogenesi at the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, Italy. She has exhibited her work in venues such as Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Denmark), Instituto Tomie Ohtake (São Paulo), Sculpture Center, (New York), KW Institute (Berlin), the 2017 Venice Biennale Antarctic Pavilion (Venice), the Brazilian Museum of Sculpture and Ecology (MuBE, São Paulo), and Hordaland Kunstsenter for the 2019 Bergen Assembly (Norway). Her work has been reviewed in publications such as Artforum, Frieze, Sculpture, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, and the MIT Drama Review. 

Cerqueira Leite graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art (UCL, London) Graduate Sculpture program in 2006 as the inaugural recipient of the Kenneth Armitage Sculpture Prize.  Cerqueira Leite is a visiting critic for the Yale School of Art Graduate Sculpture program since 2019.

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Photos: Luis Corzo  
courtesy of the artist and PROXYCO gallery