CATALINA SCHLIEBENER

Catalina Schliebener (they/them) – (b. Santiago, Chile, 1980) is a Chilean-born visual artist who works primarily with collage, installation, and murals. Schliebener’s work draws on images, objects, and narratives associated with childhood and explores gender, sexuality, and class. Their work has been exhibited in Queens Museum (New York, NY), Colby College Museum of Art (Waterville, ME), Mattress Factory Museum (Pittsburgh, PA), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Santiago, Chile), Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (New York, NY), Boston Center for the Arts (Boston, MA), Center for Books Arts (New York, NY), Centro Cultural de España (Santiago), Centro Cultural Recoleta (Buenos Aires), Catalyst Arts (Belfast), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Brooklyn, NY), Bureau of General Services-Queer Division (New York, NY), Hache galería (Buenos Aires), and Galería Metropolitana (Santiago, Chile), among others.

A recipient of multiple FONDART Grants (Cultural and Arts Development Fund of the Government of Chile), Schliebener also received grants from DIRAC – Board of Cultural Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Relations of Chile (2007) and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, NY (2020). 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).

Artist intern in Queens Museum, New York, US (2022 – 2024).

In addition, Schliebener 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, and facilitates gender and sexuality trainings for the Early Childhood Professional Development Institute at the City University of New York (CUNY). They received a Bachelor of Philosophy and a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the Universidad de Arte y Ciencias Sociales (ARCIS; Santiago, Chile).

Schliebener lives and work in Brooklyn, NYC.