TIDE LIMITS: ART COMMUNITIES AND LINES OF ENGAGEMENT
Leonor Veiga (b. Lisbon, 1978) is an art historian and curator, currently living 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 Award for “Best Dissertation in Humanities” by the International Convention of Asian Scholars (2019). Her curatorial activity (2006-2023) includes exhibitions in Indonesia, Mozambique, London, Macau and Lisbon. In 2020, Veiga was Head Curator and Project Manager of “Natura”, the 2nd edition of ARTFEM, Women Artists International Art Biennial of Macau SAR. She was awarded ex-aequo with Adriana Delgado Martins and Marisa Vinha with the “New Curators Award” by Galeria ArteContempo (2009). Her writing on the arts (2010-23) has particularly focused on non-Western contemporary art. Veiga has published several essays in Portugal, the Netherlands, Singapore, Brazil, the United Kingdom and Italy. She has equally been the recipient of several research grants and financial support for her curatorial practice, in Portugal and abroad.