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Education  

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



Masterclasses / Residências

2022-2023 -  Working With Waste, IKF, at Film University Babelsberg, DE (Mentor: James Richards)

2022 - (Un)Romantic Sex, Maumaus, PT



Awards

Project Support Program - Internationalisation Grant, DGARTES, 2023, PT

International Circulation Grant, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2023, PT

Selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021, UK

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



Collections

Private collections: UK, PT, USA



Solo/Duo Exhibitions

The Nerve, 2024, at Salto, Lisbon, PT

LÂMINA, 2024, at Casa do Comum, Lisbon, PT



Selected Group Exhibitions

9th Edition CDL, 2024, at Casa da Dona Laura, Lisbon, PT

MEANS, 2023, at Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK

CONFESSIONS, 2023, at Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, IE

Estudo do Meio (18+), 2023, with Purga, at Carpintarias de São Lázaro, Lisbon, PT

Mostra Nacional de Jovens Criadores, 2023, Gerador, Vila do Conde, PT

Tom of Finland Art and Culture Festival, 2022, with Ridley Road Project Space, at Second Home, London, UK

Staying Alive, 2022, at DuplexAIR, Lisbon, PT

MELTDOWN, 2022, at Ridley Road Project Space, London, UK

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

Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021, at South London Gallery, London, UK

Entre o Real e a Imagem, 2021, at Casa do Capitão, Lisbon, PT

Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021, at Firstsite Art Gallery, Colchester, UK

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

Convoluted (Artificial Sorry > Church Intelligence) (2023), 2024, at Queer Film Festival 2024, Porto, PT

Convoluted (Artificial Sorry > Church Intelligence) (2023), 2024, at TACO!, London, UK

The Painter (2016), 2023, at Salto, Lisbon, PT

You are a letter, written not with ink, but with the Spirit (2019), 2019, at Brotéria - Cineclube Aberto, Lisbon, PT

You are a letter, written not with ink, but with the Spirit (2019), 2019, at Queer Film Festival 2019, Lisbon, PT



Online/Radio 

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



Press

Fucking Young! #25, 2025, TELEVISION https://fuckingyoung.es/store/

Fucking Young! #24, 2024, HEARTBREAK https://fuckingyoung.es/store/

Brotéria: Dezembro 2022, visual essay Spasmus SpeiPilot 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