Catarina Leitão in the Art Library collection
Visual artist and teacher, Catarina Leitão (1970) was born in Stuttgart, Germany.
She took a degree in Painting at the Faculdade de Belas Artes in Lisbon (1993) and a master’s in fine arts at Hunter College in New York (2000).
She was a grantee of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Luso-American Foundation between 1997 and 1999; of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation between 2001 and 2002.
Catarina Leitão has exhibited regularly since 1989, in Portugal and abroad. Her work is represented in the collection of the Centro de Arte Moderna of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Since 2010 she has been teaching at the Escola Superior de Artes e Design in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal.
Apontamentos 13 / Catarina Leitão. [Lisboa] : Catarina Leitão, 2020. Single copy, signed and dated by the artist. Art Library. LA 799
Apontamentos 19 / Catarina Leitão. [Lisboa] : Catarina Leitão, 2020. Single copy, signed and dated by the artist. Art Library. LA 800
“Natura VI is part of The natural library, an artistic project that comprises an infinite series of books, all unique copies, which define and proceed from a fictional work in which I question the relationship between the human and the natural.”
— Catarina Leitão
Weatherproof / Catarina Leitão. New York : Center for Book Arts, 2007. Copy 36/50, signed in pencil by the artist. Art Library. LA 150
Artist’s books
Not really a book, not really a work of art. Portuguese artists of various generations present these varied and unexpected objects, which are part of the Art Library collection.
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