Flora Leite (1988) is an artist and researcher. Her work moves through both independent and institutional spaces, where she proposes installations, texts and debates. Flora develops strategies to investigate the materiality of the world and her own field of work. By asking what (hi)stories and fictions do objects and spaces carry, Leite produces subterfuges of observation and negotiation of meaning, in art spaces and out of them. Leite holds a master’s degree from The University of São Paulo. She is currently at the Jan van Eyck (Netherlands). Her work can be found in the collection of MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, in the Coleção Moraes-Barbosa, and other public and private collections.
The artist has held solo shows in institutions such as Casa de Cultura do Parque (2024), Centro Cultural São Paulo (2011) and Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade (2017), besides commissioned projects for aarea.co (2018), arte_passagem (2019) and Casa de Cultura do Parque (2020). In 2022, she presented her first solo show in a commercial gallery, at GDA – Galleria de Artistas. Her most recent solos were shown at Orlando (2025) and Under the Spell, in London (2026).
Leite has participated in group shows held at institutions such as MASP (Histories of Ecology, 2025), MUPA (Céu-Eclipse), and MARP, and spaces like Olhão (2019), Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo (2017) Caixa Cultural – RJ (2015), SESC-SP (2015), and Instituto Cervantes (2012), besides other art spaces and galleries. Artistic residencies have had an important role in fostering moments of intense research and production, from Casa Tomada to Red Bull Station, including activities at São João Residency and Ateliê Fonte.
Although her career started by a very traditional path – open calls and prizes, in institutions such as Instituto Tomie Ohtake (2010), Instituto de Arte Contemporânea (2010) and the Art Museum of Ribeirão Preto (2010; 2015) — independent spaces soon began to play a significant part in her work. After presenting her research in a few of them, she then became a producer at .Aurora (2014-2016) and Intervalo Escola (2016). Soon afterward, she coordinated Ateliê397 between 2017 and 2018. Those experiences broadened the meaning and possibilities of the artist’s role in her view, and since then she has been organizing public programs, such as Trela (Ateliê397, 2018) and Women in Contemporary Art (SESC/CPF), and participating in several debates, mostly focused on labor issues in the art field (Pivô Research, 2020). Her works are in collections such as CCSP and MARP, besides others. In 2022, she finished her master’s in Visual Arts in the University of São Paulo, and participated in the Casa-Escola independent program at Casa do Povo.