Leonor Veiga

I am Leonor Veiga, an art historian and curator, who started by being an industrial designer. I am currently a postdoc associated with the University of Lisbon through the project “A History of Presence: a dialogue between Portuguese collections of material culture from Southeast Asia and Southeast Asian artists”. I holds Ph.D. from Leiden University (2018) with the dissertation entitled "The Third Avant-Garde: Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia Recalling Tradition". The dissertation was awarded the Humanities Best Dissertation Prize, by the International Convention of Asian Scholars (2019). My curatorial work (2006-20) includes exhibitions in Indonesia, Mozambique, London, Macau and Lisbon. I have been a practitioner of crafts, most prominently batik, tie-dye and ikat since 2006. I tried basketry in Indonesia but did not become an independent maker. This is why I am taking your course!