Catalina Schliebener-Munoz

Catalina Schliebener Muñoz (b.1980), is a Chilean-born, trans and intersex visual artist and educator based in Brooklyn. Their research and collage-based practice extends across multiple media, including work on paper, sculpture, installations, and mixed-media murals. Their work focuses on everyday images and objects related to popular constructions of childhood and adolescence and explores and interrogates learned stereotypes around gender, sexuality, class, and nationalism. Children’s books, cartoons, movies, pedagogical objects, costumes, and games are frequent sources of material in their work.

Schliebener Muñoz earned a BA in Philosophy and a BFA from Universidad ARCIS (Santiago, Chile). They have exhibited their work internationally, including in solo shows at Queens Museum, NY; Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh; Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, NY; Boston Center for the Arts, Boston; and Centro Cultural de España, Santiago, among others. They have shown in recent group exhibitions at the National Academy of Design, NY; Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, NY; Children’s Museum of Manhattan, NY; Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY, and elsewhere.