Catalina Schliebener (b. Santiago, Chile, 1980; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) is a visual artist who works primarily with collage, installation, and murals. Her work draws on images, objects, and narratives associated with childhood and explores gender, sexuality, and class. Schliebener’s work has been exhibited in Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Santiago, Chile), Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (New York, NY), Centro Cultural de España (Santiago, Chile), Centro Cultural Recoleta (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Center for Books Arts (New York, NY), Catalyst Arts (Belfast, Northern Ireland), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Brooklyn, NY), Hache Galería (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Galería Jardín Oculto (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Galería Metropolitana (Santiago, Chile), and Bureau of General Services-Queer Division (New York, NY), 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) and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (New York, NY). She also recieved 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). Schliebener also 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. She received a Bachelor of Philosophy and a Bachelor of Visual Arts from the Universidad de Arte y Ciencias Sociales (ARCIS, Santiago, Chile). Statement Schliebener works primarily with collage, drawings, murals, and installations. The subject matter of her work focuses on everyday images and objects related to childhood. Children’s books, pedagogical objects, costumes, sports and games are frequent sources of material in her work. She is particularly interested in childhood because in this period the limits between reality and fiction are not yet defined. She intentionally works with material that carries implicit narratives around gender, sexuality, and class. Children’s stories and games are embedded with morals that indirectly teach social and behavioral norms. She seeks to draw attention to these norms in order to render them uncanny. Her intention with this strategy is to pause or interrupt the narrative, to introduce ambiguity in the face of supposed certainty. More info in: www.catalinaschliebener.com