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Leonor Veiga

Leonor Veiga (Lisboa, 1978) é historiadora de arte e curadora residente em Montpellier, França. É doutorada pela Universidade de Leiden (2018) com a dissertação The Third Avant-Garde: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia Recalling Tradition, distinguida com o prémio bianual IBP Humanities Prize 2019 pela International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS). Entre 2020-23 foi investigadora pós-doutoral no CIEba com o projecto A History of Presence: a dialogue between Portuguese collections of material culture from Southeast Asia and Southeast Asian artists e docente na FBAUL em World Art Studies e Temas de Arte Contemporânea. Desde 2019 actua como professora adjunta em várias instituições: LASALLE School of the Arts (Singapura), ISCTE (Lisboa), Universidade de Passau (Alemanha) e Universidade de São Paulo (Brasil). Autora de mais vários ensaios e textos, o seu trabalho foi publicado, entre outros, pelas editoras Routledge e Springer e em jornais como Third Text, ArtAsiaPacific, ArteCapital e Convocarte. Em 2020, actuou como curadora-chefe de Natura, a 2.ª edição da ARTFEM: Bienal Internacional de Mulheres Artistas da RAEM de Macau e o seu trabalho conta com exposições em Macau, Londres, Ilha de Moçambique, Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Lampung e Ubud, na Indonésia.

Leonor Veiga (Lisbon, 1978) is an art historian and curator based in Montpellier, France. She holds a PhD from Leiden University (2018) with the dissertation The Third Avant-Garde: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia Recalling Tradition, which was awarded the biannual IBP Humanities Prize 2019 by the International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS). Between 2020 and 2023, she was a postdoctoral researcher at CIEba through the project A History of Presence: a dialogue between Portuguese collections of material culture from Southeast Asia and Southeast Asian artists and a lecturer in World Art Studies and Contemporary Art Themes at FBAUL. Since 2019, she has worked as an adjunct professor at the LASALLE School of the Arts (Singapore), ISCTE (Lisbon), the University of Passau (Germany), and the University of São Paulo (Brazil). Author of numerous essays and book chapters, her work has been published by Routledge and Springer, among others, and in journals such as Third Text, ArtAsiaPacific, ArteCapital, and Convocarte. In 2020, she served as head curator of Natura, the 2nd edition of ARTFEM: International Biennial of Women Artists of Macao SAR. Her curatorial work has been exhibited in Lisbon, Macau, London, Ilha de Mozambique, and in Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Lampung, and Ubud, in Indonesia.

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