CV

Education

• (2018-2021) BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins - UAL, London, UK

Exhibitions

• confessions, 2023, at lismore castle arts, Lismore, ie
  
• means, 2023, at bermondsey project space, London, UK

• Estudo do Meio (18+), 2023, with Purga, at Carpintarias de São Lázaro, Lisbon, PT
  
• Tom of Finland Art and Culture Festival, 2022, with Ridley Road Project Space, at Second Home London Fields, London, UK
  
• Staying Alive, 2022, at DuplexAIR, Lisbon, PT
  
• MELTDOWN, 2022, at Ridley Road Project Space, London, UK
  
• Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021, at South London Gallery, London, UK
  
• Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021, at Firstsite Art Gallery, Colchester, UK
  
• Entre o Real e a Imagem, 2021, at Casa do Capitão, Lisbon, PT
  
• A Hunted Time, 2021, at Casa do Capitão, Lisbon, PT
  
• SPNDRFT, 2021, at ArtSect Gallery, London, UK
  
• I WILL TAKE THE RISK, 2020, at AZAN space, part of LisbonArtWeekend, Lisbon, PT
  
• SALE: Tate Exchange 2020, at Tate Modern, London, UK
  
• Come Together: Tate Exchange 2019, at Tate Modern, London, UK
  
• Wonky Donky, 2018, at Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK
  
• Crypt O' Night, 2017 at Saint Giles Church, London, UK
  

screenings

• The Voices Film Series Presents: Queer Stories, 2022, at Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK 

• You are a letter, written not with ink, but with the Spirit, 2019, at Brotéria - Cineclube Aberto, Lisbon, PT
  
• You are a letter, written not with ink, but with the Spirit, 2019, at Queer Film Festival 2019, Lisbon, PT
  

Press

• Brotéria: Dezembro 2022, visual essay Spasmus Spei
  

• Pilot Press: Responses to Pale Blue Dot (1990) by Voyager, https://https://www.pilotpress.co.uk/catalogue
  
• Conversations Zine, https://conversationszine.bigcartel.com/product/conversations-zine
• Electra Magazine 5: YOUTH, https://www.fundacaoedp.pt/en/content/electra-magazine
  

Online/Broadcast

• FN/S002, FIELDNOTES, 2022. A radio broadcast at https://https://fieldnotes.site/audio/
  
• David Leal + Nina Danino, The Spiritual Exercises 2, 2021. A collaboration with the artist Nina Danino at https://artschaplaincy.net/projects/david-leal-nina-danino/
  
• Speaking in Tongues, 2020, part of a performance-based project devised by Fine Art students of Central Saint Martins developed in a partnership with The National Gallery, London’s Learning &  National Programmes.
  
• The Spiritual Exercises, 2020, at https://artschaplaincy.net/projects/index/the-spiritual-exercises/ 

Talks

• In Conversation: Christopher Bond and David Leal: 05/07/2022. Hosted by Art/Work Association (A/WA) and AutoItalia, London, UK.
  
• Religion & Art Forum, Session 6: 18/10/2021. Hosted by the Art Department, Goldsmiths and moderated by Nina  Danino (Goldsmiths College) & Mark Dean (Arts Chaplaincy Projects). At https://religionandart.org/Session-6
  

Awards/grants

• Project Support Program - Internationalisation Grant, DGARTES, 2023, PT 
• International Circulation Grant, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2023, PT

• Selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021
  
• Selected for «Artists in early career stage» category, Center.Stage, RU
  
• Shortlisted for Metro Imaging x Made in Arts London Mentorship 2021, UK
  
• Shortlisted for the Mead Fellowship Awards 2021, UK