About

 

Julee (Juliana Lee Pinto, Curitiba, 1994) is a visual artist based in Lisbon. She holds a degree in Multimedia Art from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon and completed further training in Ceramics and Painting at the Casa Alfredo Andersen Museum (Curitiba), as well as in Photography and Painting at Ar.Co – Centre for Art & Visual Communication (Lisbon).

Since 2021, she has been developing workshops with diverse communities, combining manual and symbolic practices, and working as a cultural mediator in projects that bring art and territory into closer dialogue. Artist residencies have been a key part of this process, allowing her to deepen a sensitive engagement with local dynamics and expand her practice in direct relation with materials, contexts, and ways of living.

Her research focuses on the transfiguration of matter and cycles of transformation. She works with natural, domestic and found materials that carry memory, impermanence, and symbolic potential. Through sculpture, installation, and experimental photographic processes, she constructs quiet, often ritual-like compositions in which time operates as an internal force. The banal and the invisible take on central roles. Rather than closing into fixed meanings, her works sustain a state of suspension—where meaning is suggested, but never fully revealed.

 
About

Julee (Juliana Lee Pinto, Curitiba, 1994) is a visual artist based in Lisbon. She holds a degree in Multimedia Art from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon and completed further training in Ceramics and Painting at the Casa Alfredo Andersen Museum (Curitiba), as well as in Photography and Painting at Ar.Co – Centre for Art & Visual Communication (Lisbon).

Since 2021, she has been developing workshops with diverse communities, combining manual and symbolic practices, and working as a cultural mediator in projects that bring art and territory into closer dialogue. Artist residencies have been a key part of this process, allowing her to deepen a sensitive engagement with local dynamics and expand her practice in direct relation with materials, contexts, and ways of living.

Her research focuses on the transfiguration of matter and cycles of transformation. She works with natural, domestic and found materials that carry memory, impermanence, and symbolic potential. Through sculpture, installation, and experimental photographic processes, she constructs quiet, often ritual-like compositions in which time operates as an internal force. The banal and the invisible take on central roles. Rather than closing into fixed meanings, her works sustain a state of suspension—where meaning is suggested, but never fully revealed.

 
Portfolio
 
Curriculum

Education

2024 | Advanced Photography Project – Ar.Co Center for Art and Visual Communication

2024 | Painting – Ar.Co Center for Art and Visual Communication

2023 | Ceramics – Museu Casa Alfredo Andersen

2022 | Painting – Museu Casa Alfredo Andersen

2020 | Bachelor’s Degree in Multimedia Art – Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon

Artist Residencies

2025 | AiR: Artist in Residency – Quinta das Relvas (Albergaria-a-Velha, Portugal)

2025 | GRÃO – Artistic and Research Residency – Quinta das Relvas (Albergaria-a-Velha, Portugal)

2025 | Mais Uno + 1 – “Play(the)Ground” – Júlio de Matos Psychiatric Hospital (Lisbon, Portugal)

2024 | Ar.Co + Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Cência (Lisbon, Portugal)

2023 | REVELA-T – “Residency for Creation and Experimental Photography” (Barcelona, Catalonia)

2022 | Cultivamos Cultura + _Arteria_Lab – “Biomaterials Residency” (São Luís, Portugal)

2021 | “Sozinho Mas Não Só” (Selvagens Islands, Portugal)

2021 | “Criar com Tradição” (Santana, Madeira)

Group Exhibitions

2025 | Arquipélago – Colectivo Triciclo (Lisbon, Portugal)

2024 | Paths – REVELA-T Festival (Barcelona, Catalonia)

2023 | Aliadas – Barleria Gallery (Curitiba, Brazil)

2023 | Ecos – Gallery of the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)

2022 | Perspectivas – José Saramago Municipal Library (Odemira, Portugal)

2021 | Sozinho Mas Não Só – Gallery of Fundação Cecília Zino (Funchal, Portugal)

Workshops Taught

2024 | IMAGERIE Casa de Imagens – “Experimental Polaroid – Creative Collage with Emulsion Lifts” (Lisbon, Portugal)

2023 | IMAGERIE Casa de Imagens – “Experimental Polaroid – Creative Collage with Emulsion Lifts” (Lisbon, Portugal)

2023 | DOCA Associação – “Biomaterials Workshop” (Caldas da Rainha, Portugal)

2022 | IMAGERIE Casa de Imagens – “Biomaterials Workshop” (Lisbon, Portugal)

2022 | _Arteria_Lab – “Biomaterials Creative Lab” (Évora, Portugal)

2022 | Femeeting 2022 – “Biomaterial Art Lab – Why Biomaterials Are So Important for Artistic Practices?” (Évora, Portugal).