Liene Bosquê
Liene Bosquê is a visual artist and art educator based in Miami, born in Brazil. Bosquê’s installations, sculptures, site-specific projects, as well as socially engaged practice works have been exhibited in museums and galleries In the United States at MoMA PS1 in New York (2015), Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago (2013), Museum of Contemporary Art of North Miami (2020), Frost Art Museum (2022) in Miami, among other places. Her artworks were also included in international exhibitions in Brazil, Portugal, Italy, Turkey, and South Korea, at venues such as the Museu de História Natural in Lisbon (2007), the Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto (2006), and Sesc in São Paulo (2018).
Recently, Liene received the Miami Individual Artists (MIA) Stipend Program Award to create new artworks. In 2019, Bosquê received the Ellies Creator Award, Miami’s Visual Arts Awards, and a WaveMaker Grant to present HamacaS Project. The first iteration of this socially engaged project in Florida was shown at MOCA North Miami in February 2020.
Bosquê is currently in residency at Dimentions Variable in Miami and was a 2023-2024 Artist Resident at Oolite Arts, Miami Beach. Liene was an artist-in-residence at Wave Hill in the Bronx and at Queens Museum’s ArtBuilt residency, both in New York. In 2016, she received the Emerging Artist Fellowship from the Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, where she presented her first public sculpture. Liene Bosquê holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a BFA from the São Paulo State University, and a BA in Architecture and Urbanism from Mackenzie University in Brazil, where she is from. She is a professor at the University of Miami.