Bio

Ana Leal is a visual artist born in Northeast Brazil and based in São Paulo. Her practice explores impermanence, silence, and memory through records of everyday life, nature, and personal narratives. Working with photography, video, and techniques such as collage, monotype, and embroidery, she creates quiet, evocative images that embrace delicacy as a form of resistance. Her works move between the documentary and the poetic, weaving traces of time—wilted flowers, aged paper, broken glass, archival images—into compositions that reveal the expressive potential of fragility and the beauty of the ephemeral. Leal is a Gold Award winner at the 2020 TIFA and the 15th Julia Margaret Cameron Award. She holds an MFA from MIU (2018), has works in the collection of the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, and serves as content editor for South America at the international platform Lenscratch.