Yuri Leal

Painting, drawing · b. 1992, Brazil

Yuri Leal is a painter and multidisciplinary artist, born in Brazil in 1992. He trained at the Fine Arts School of São Paulo before moving to the Netherlands; he lives in Amsterdam and works in Haarlem. His practice brings classical European drawing and painting techniques together with a self-taught, multidisciplinary approach, across drawing, painting and text-based work.

His compositions often begin with fragments of his own diary writing that slowly turn into landscapes, a place where memory becomes matter. His recent series, Written Landscapes, reimagines painting as a site of translation.