Catarina Patrício Leitão, an artist born in Lisbon in 1980, researches in the area of Contemporary Culture and New Technologies and teaches at the Universidade e de Humanidades e de Tecnologias (ULHT). She graduated in painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon (2003) and studied photography and wood engraving at the Fachhochschule Bielefeld, Germany (2000). In 2008 she completed her MA in Anthropology of Social Movements at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the University of Nova de Lisboa, where she received her PhD in 2014 in Communication Sciences.

She is currently developing a work programme in theory and practice of the arts, funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. His work is represented in several private collections in Portugal and abroad, as well as in the Instituto Amaro da Costa, Fundação Engenheiro António de Almeida, Fundação Côa Parque and the Dietrich Mateschitz Collection (founder of Redbull).