Artist Profile: Liliana Sanches

Diving with sea bass (Mergulho com robalos) by Liliana Sanches, acrylic, coloured pencil and watercolour on paper, 2023
Liliana Sanches — Diving with sea bass (Mergulho com robalos), 2023
Acrylic, coloured pencil and watercolour on paper, 75 x 75 cm
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My fingers into your mouth meet the Great Pomegranate (Meus dedos dentro da sua boca encontram a Grande Romã) by Liliana Sanches, acrylic on wood, 2024
Liliana Sanches — My fingers into your mouth meet the Great Pomegranate (Meus dedos dentro da sua boca encontram a Grande Romã), 2024
Acrylic on wood, 20 x 30 cm
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Liliana Sanches is a Brazilian multidisciplinary artist born in 1983. Her research plays with affective memory, time and sensibility, creating imaginary worlds.

Between the real and the dreamlike, she builds paintings, drawings and installations inspired by cinema, theatre and literature.

Recent Activity

2026
Works at SP-Arte 2026, invited artist at the Particular Art stand, São Paulo, Brazil
In the Beginning Was the Sea (En el principio era el mar) group exhibition, special participation through the Colecciona Sur programme 2nd edition, Sur Gallery, Barcelona

2025
Passion Lives in Mystery (La pasión vive en el misterio) solo exhibition, Espírito Santo Art Museum, Vitória, Brazil
Moving Through Time (Transitar por el Tiempo) group exhibition, Porto House of Visual Arts, Vitória, Brazil
Any Figure Beyond Our Everyday Gaze (Cualquier Figura más allá de nuestra mirada cotidiana) group exhibition, curated by Nicolas Soares, OMA Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil
Paradoxes, Cycles and Bifurcations (Paradojas, ciclos y bifurcaciones) group exhibition, Sur Gallery, Barcelona
Works at the 16th JustMad International Contemporary Art Fair, Sur Gallery stand C6, Madrid, Spain

2024
Fireflies: Like Stars in the Night (Bichos de luz como estrellas en la noche) group exhibition, Sur Gallery, Barcelona
Usina Luis Maluf artistic residency, curated by Priscyla Gomes and Agnaldo Farias, São Paulo, Brazil

2022
Every Time We Sleep the World Ends (Siempre que dormimos se acaba el mundo) solo exhibition, Homero Massena Gallery, Vitória, Brazil

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