Biography

Leonor de Oliveira is an integrated researcher from the Institute of Art History, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. She concluded her PhD in 2013 in the fields of Museology and Artistic Heritage (School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa) and between 2014 and 2020 carried out her post-doctoral research, which centred on the migration of Portuguese artists to London in the post-war context. This investigation was based at the Institute of Art History and The Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Both her PhD and Post-doctoral research were funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. She is the author of the monograph published by Routledge, Portuguese Artists in London: Shaping Identities in Post-War Europe (2020). She has also been publishing on artistic creativity and political resistance, Iberian post-war artistic context, and Paula Rego. She has been involved in curatorial projects since 2014, collaborating with Casa das Histórias Paula Rego and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.