Wednesday, October 21 @ 5:00 – 6:15pm
Chazen Auditorium
FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Catalina Schliebener Muñoz (b.1980), is a Chilean-born, trans, and intersex visual artist and educator based in Brooklyn. Their research and collage-based practice extends across multiple media, including work on paper, sculpture, installations, and mixed-media murals. Their work focuses on everyday images and objects related to popular constructions of childhood and adolescence and explores and interrogates learned stereotypes around gender, sexuality, class, and nationalism. Children’s books, cartoons, movies, pedagogical objects, costumes, and games are frequent sources of material in their work.
Schliebener Muñoz’s work has been exhibited internationally including solo shows at Olympia, New York, New York (2025), Queens Museum, Queens, New York (2024), Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (2024), Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, New York, New York (2022, 2016), Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts (2021), HACHE Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2017), Point of Contact Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York (2016), CCMATTA, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2015), Fundación Esteban Lisa, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2014), CCE-Centro Cultural de España, Santiago, Chile (2011), Galería Bech, Santiago, Chile (2006), among others.
They have shown in two-persons and group exhibitions at the Colby Museum of Arts, Waterville, Maine (2024), Barro, New York, New York (2024), National Academy of Design, New York, New York (2023), Casa del Bicentenario, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2023), Children’s Museum of Manhattan, New York, New York (2022), Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, New York (2021), Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York (2021), Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn, New York (2019), The Loisaida Center, New York, New York, (2019), Center for Books Arts, New York, New York (2016), Galería LOCAL, Santiago, Chile (2013), Galería Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile (2012), Galeria Gravura Brasileira, São Paulo, Brazil (2012), Galería Jardín Oculto, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2011), Biblioteca de Santiago, Santiago, Chile (2011), Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2009), Galería Balmaceda 1215, Santiago, Chile (2008), Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Northern Ireland (2007), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC), and Santiago, Chile (2003), among many others.
Schliebener Muñoz is a recipient of the following grants: FONDART Grants – Cultural and Arts Development Fund of the Government of Chile (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009), DIRAC – Board of Cultural Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Relations of Chile (2007), and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts – New York, New York (2021, 2024. 2025), among others. They also received a Queer Artist Fellowship from the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (2017), and an Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) Fellowship from the Bronx Museum of the Arts (2018). Schliebener Muñoz was an In Situ Fellow (2022-2024) at Queens Museum, Queens, New York.
In addition, Schliebener Muñoz has extensive teaching experience, from early childhood education to undergraduate education, on topics ranging from philosophy and art theory to art instruction in schools, studios, and museum settings.
They are currently working as a teaching artist with the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York and as a visiting faculty at RISD, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, and Montclair State University, New Jersey. They earned a BA in Philosophy and BFA from Universidad ARCIS (Santiago, Chile). catalinaschliebener.com
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