Catarina Leitão, born in Germany 1970, Portuguese, lives and works in New York.
Leitão works in drawing and sculpture. Recent solo exhibitions include Number 35 Gallery in New York, 2007, and Project Room at Michael Steinberg Fine Art in New York, 2005. In New York, Leitão has exhibited at P.S.1/MoMA, Sara Meltzer Gallery, Wavehill, Glyndor Gallery and Grounds, Socrates Sculpture Park, and Andrea Rosen Gallery 2. In Portugal she is represented by Pedro Cera Gallery and had solo museum shows at the Berardo Collection and Gulbenkian Foundation. Awards and residencies include Center for Book Arts, The Triangle Arts Residency, Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.

MFA (Masters in Fine Arts - Combined Media), Hunter College, New York, 1999.
Undergraduate degree in Fine Arts from University of Lisbon, Portugal, 1993.

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