Ana Leal

Brazilian photographer Ana Leal pursues themes of natural environment and contemplation in her artworks. Inspired by minimalism and the Concretism movement in Brazil, Leal pairs down her predominantly abstract photographs depicting stillness and structure. She uses both film and digital cameras to capture imagery she observes, stages or edits to invite the viewers into contemplation in the inner labyrinths of her subjects. Leal takes her audience to a timeless place of diffuse spatiality. She aims to capture the beauty of simplicity through abstraction or rendering subtle images that emphasize minutiae. Each image is printed as a solo image on materials such as paper, canvas, or aluminum, or is composed as diptychs and triptychs.

Leal is a Gold Award winner on the 2020 Tokyo International Foto Awards and the 15th Julia Margaret Cameron Award Winner both in the abstract category. She also received an Honorable Mention on Prix de La Photographie Paris and on the 15th Pollux Awards as on Latin America 7. Her work has been exhibited across the United States and Brazil. She was nominated “Artist of the Future "by Contemporary Art Curator Magazine in 2020 and has been published at Envision Arts Magazine, Thought art Magazine, and Dodh...

2018 MFA in photography, Miami International
University of Arts and Design, Miami, FL

2013 BFA in Photography , Escola Panamericana de
Arte e design, São Paulo, Brazil

1994 MBA in Marketing, Universidade de
Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

1993 BA in Economics, Universidade Federal de
Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

SOLO SHOW

2020/10 - “ Subtle Amazon “ - Quasi Quadro, Torino, Italy

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021/09 - Paralela Eixo Arte 2021 - Eixo Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2021/08 - Art Lab Foto 2021 - Art Lab Gallery - São Paulo, Brazil
2021/07 - Four Degrees: Eco Anxiety and Climate Change - Humble Art Foundation
2021/07 - Sertão em mim - QXAS Festival 2020
2021/03 - 7º Pequeno Encontro da Fotografia - Olinda, PE, Brazil
2021/02 - Perspective, Sohn Fine Art, Lenox, MA, USA
2021/02 - Member Salon Exhibition, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis MN, USA
2020/10 - Engaging the Full Spectrum, Agora Gallery - New York, NY, USA
2020/08 - Davis Orton Gallery 6th Annual Group Show - New York, NY, USA
2020/07 - The Still Life, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis MN, USA
2020/05 - Art in the Time of Corona - Dab Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2020/03 - Shadow and Light - Black Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA
2020/01 - Mulheres de Visão - 4º Fotografia Arte Plural , Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2020/01 - Abstraction - Photo place Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont, USA
2019/05 - The Sublime Landscape, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis MN, USA
2019/09 - Personal Narrative - Photo place Gallery, Middlebury, Vermont, USA
2019/05...