OBRA DE Leirner, Jac (1961-) ARTISTA PLÁSTICAOs Cem (Roda) (1986);
Nomes (1989)
Jacqueline Leirner was born in São Paulo in 1961. She studied at the Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado in São Paulo from 1979 to 1984 and taught there from 1987 to 1989. Leirner’s work has been exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro (2002); Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (2001, 1998); Sala Mendoza, Caracas (1998); The Bohen Foundation, New York (1998); Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva (1993); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (1992); and The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (1991). Leirner's work has been included in the Venice Biennale (1997, 1990), Documenta IX in Kassel, Germany (1992), and the São Paulo Bienal (1994, 1989, 1983). In 1991 she was a visiting fellow at University College in Oxford, England, and an artist in residence at the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, England, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she had solo exhibitions. In 2001 she received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation in New York. Jac Leirner lives and works in São Paulo.
