Statement
My work explores the passage of time through daily rituals, unfolding slowly across months and years. Built from grids, layers, and recurring geometries, each painting and drawing contributes to a larger continuum, works that can be experienced individually, but also as part of an expanding, ongoing language. Having lived in more than ten cities across continents, I carry many places within me. This layered sense of belonging, displacement, and memory deeply shapes my practice.
Rather than depicting literal cities, my work traces internal cartographies, personal architectures formed through recollection. Watercolor offers transparency, revealing the underlying pencil structure, while gouache brings density of color. Colors are drawn from remembered places, marking time and space.
Drawing on my architectural background, I investigate how built forms shape perception, intimacy, and our relationship to the environments we inhabit. The works echo architectural language—plans, elevations, fragments of urban pattern—yet refuse to become legible maps. Instead, they propose speculative cities, built not from concrete, but from experience.
My influences span art, architecture, and writing. Brazilian Neoconcrete artists such as Lygia Pape and Hélio Oiticica inform my engagement with geometry and sensorial experience. Josef Albers’ serial rigor, Agnes Martin’s poetic grids, and Zarina’s exploration of home resonate with my search for memory and place. Aldo Rossi’s reflections on the city as a collective repository of experience ground my thinking about architecture as deeply human.
Through this ongoing body of work, I am building a visual language that inhabits the space between permanence and impermanence.
Bio
Letícia (b. 1986 Curitiba, Brazil) is an artist, architect, writer, and educator based in Brooklyn, New York. She received a Master in Architecture from Yale University and a Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College. Her artwork has been exhibited at Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, 411 Gallery, Pratt School of Architecture Gallery, and at the Center for Architecture. She completed a residency at Further On Artist-in-Residence program in Amagansett, New York. She has taught architectural studio and drawing courses at Pratt Institute and Barnard College. Her writing has appeared in The Architect's Newspaper, PLAT Journal, the New York Review of Architecture, and Hyperallergic, among others.
Curriculum Vitae
Born in 1986 in Curitiba, Brazil
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
Master of Architecture, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 2011
Bachelor of Arts, Barnard College, New York, NY, 2008
Shows
2025 Benefit Group Show, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn
2025 New Drawings Group Show, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn
2025 Shape Line Space Group Show, Selva, Brooklyn
2024 Fearless Watercolors Group Show, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, Brooklyn
2024 The Power of Abstraction Online Group Show, Site: Brooklyn
2021 Small Works Group Show, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn
2021 Online Solo Show, Pratt Institute School of Architecture, Brooklyn
2018 Small Works Group Show, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn
2012 “16 Squares: 4 Capital Cities in Portugal and Brazil,” Solo Show, Barnard College, New York
Publications & Lectures
2025 NYCxDesign Panel Discussion "The Art of the Unexpected: Beyond the Rendering"
2025 Art Dialogues Issue 3, Studio Visit with Letícia Wouk Almino
2022 Book Review of Lina Bo Bardi: Material Ideologies (published by Princeton University Press) "Ahead of Her Time: A new book about Lina Bo Bardi showcases recent engagements with the architect’s all-inclusive work," in The Architect's Newspaper
2021 "Ballet Ditches Theater, Embraces City," in the New York Review of Architecture
2020 "Pedregulho and Carmen Portinho: Pioneer of Brazilian Modernism," in Plat 9.0 Commit
2020 Featured in "A View from the Easel During Times of Quarantine," in Hyperallergic
2019 "Plasticity and Influence in 1950s Brazilian Art and Architecture," in Plat 8.0 Simplicity
2018 "Sketches from a Magical, Multimedia Opera set in a Soaring Cathedral," Hyperallergic
2017 "Winding Paths and Swooping Walls Create an Oasis in London," Hyperallergic
2017 "A Death-Plagued Gilded Age Ballroom, Recreated on the Edge of Central Park," Hyperallergic
2017 "The Hollow Symbolism of Jeff Koons’s Blow-Up Ballerina," Hyperallergic
2017 "Mourning the US Presidency with a Raucous Faux Funeral," Hyperallergic
2017 "The Transporting, Tactile Pleasures of Porcelain," Hyperallergic
2016 "The Abstract Gardens, Both Painted and Built, of a Brazilian Modernist," Hyperallergic
2016 "Pondering and Painting Giorgio Morandi’s Precise Compositions," Hyperallergic
2014 “On Edge: 4 Squares,” lecture at Americas Latino Eco Festival, Boulder, CO.
2013 “Brasília,” lecture at Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurter Buchmesse, with João Almino
2012 “16 Squares: 4 Capital Cities in Portugal and Brazil,” lecture at GSAPP Studio-X Rio