About

Julee (Juliana Lee Pinto, Curitiba, 1994) is a Brazilian-Portuguese visual artist based in Lisbon. Her practice investigates processes of material transformation and the ways in which objects, materials, and images can shift from their original contexts to acquire new meanings. Working across sculpture, installation, and photography, she engages natural, domestic, and found materials, chosen both for their physical properties and the symbolic and cultural associations they carry.

Her work follows different states of matter — decomposition, containment, transformation, and persistence — allowing time, chance, and the inherent behaviour of materials to participate in the formation of each piece. By isolating and reorganising elements associated with labour, domestic space, and everyday life, her work reveals underlying systems of value and power while opening space for symbolic and spiritual readings of the material world.

She holds a BA in Multimedia Art from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, and undertook further training at Ar.Co – Center for Art and Visual Communication and Casa Museu Alfredo Andersen. In 2025 she presented the solo exhibitions Fluxo Contínuo (Cooperativa Artística Árvore, Porto) and À Margem (Casa do Jardim da Estrela, Lisbon). In 2026 she was awarded the Ponto Kultural Artistic Creation Grant. Since 2021, she has also developed workshops and participatory projects as an extension of her artistic practice.

 
About

Julee (Juliana Lee Pinto, Curitiba, 1994) is a Brazilian-Portuguese visual artist based in Lisbon. Her practice investigates processes of material transformation and the ways in which objects, materials, and images can shift from their original contexts to acquire new meanings. Working across sculpture, installation, and photography, she engages natural, domestic, and found materials, chosen both for their physical properties and the symbolic and cultural associations they carry.

Her work follows different states of matter — decomposition, containment, transformation, and persistence — allowing time, chance, and the inherent behaviour of materials to participate in the formation of each piece. By isolating and reorganising elements associated with labour, domestic space, and everyday life, her work reveals underlying systems of value and power while opening space for symbolic and spiritual readings of the material world.

She holds a BA in Multimedia Art from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, and undertook further training at Ar.Co – Center for Art and Visual Communication and Casa Museu Alfredo Andersen. In 2025 she presented the solo exhibitions Fluxo Contínuo (Cooperativa Artística Árvore, Porto) and À Margem (Casa do Jardim da Estrela, Lisbon). In 2026 she was awarded the Ponto Kultural Artistic Creation Grant. Since 2021, she has also developed workshops and participatory projects as an extension of her artistic practice.

 
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

Grants

2026 | Artistic Grant – Ponto Kultural (Mem Martins, Portugal)

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)

Solo Exhibitions

2025 | À Margem – Casa do Jardim da Estrela (Lisbon, Portugal)

2025 | Fluxo Contínuo – Árvore Art Cooperative (Porto, Portugal)

Group Exhibitions

2026 | Um 31 na Fábrica – Beato Innovation Hub (Lisbon, Portugal)

2025 | (In)Visible Territories – Júlio de Matos Psychiatric Hospital, Pavilion 29 (Lisbon, Portugal)

2025 | Vês Metade, Sonhas o Resto – PLATO Gallery (Porto, Portugal)

2025 | Canto das Sombras – Aderno Cultural Association (Buçaco National Forest, Portugal)

2025 | Enquanto Passamos – CURARTE, Art and Health in Public Space (Albergaria-a-Velha, Portugal)

2025 | Arquipélago – Triciclo Collective (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

2025 | Júlio de Matos Psychiatric Hospital, in collaboration with Mais Uno + 1 “Countercurrent – Symbolic reconfiguration of natural materials from a decolonial perspective” (Lisbon, Portugal)

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).