“Sao Paulo’s Hammock,” 2015, fibers (cotton, rayon, and synthetic), 100 x 30 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
Teaching Artist Cohort
2025
Liene Bosquê is based in Miami. Her textiles, sculptures, and installations have been exhibited in museums and galleries in the United States, including MoMA PS1 in New York, Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, and Frost Art Museum in Miami. Her artworks have also been included in international exhibitions in Brazil, Portugal, Italy, Turkey, and South Korea at places such as Museu de História Natural in Lisbon and Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto in Sesc, São Paulo. Her work is in major collections, including Perez Art Museum of Miami, Miami-Dade Art in Public Places, FAENA, Soho House, and ArtNexus Foundation, as well as private collections internationally.
Bosquê received the Wolfsonian Creative Fellowship in 2024 and the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship in 2023. She was granted the Ellies Creator Award and a WaveMaker Grant in 2019 to present HamacaS Project at the Museum of Contemporary Art of North Miami. She was a 2023–24 artist-in-residence at Oolite Arts in Miami Beach, and completed residencies at Wave Hill, the Bronx, and Queens Museum’s ArtBuilt. In 2016, she received the Emerging Artist Fellowship from the Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, where she presented her first public sculpture.
Bosquê holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a BFA from São Paulo State University, and a BA in Architecture and Urbanism from Mackenzie University in Brazil, where she was raised. Bosquê is an adjunct at University of Miami.
Selected works
“Sao Paulo’s Hammock,” 2015, fibers (cotton, rayon, and synthetic), 100 x 30 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Queens’ Hammock II,” 2018–20, fibers (cotton, rayon, and synthetic), 75 x 25 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Queens’ Hammock I,” 2018–22, fibers (cotton and synthetic), 30 x 80 in. open dimensions. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Queens' Hammock IV,” 2018–2022, wood and cotton, 30 x 80 in. open dimensions. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Manto,” 2017–25, rust dye on cotton, 60 x 84 x 30 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
“Coffee Cycle,” 2011, coffee sacks, trunk, and coffee, 56 x 66 x 24 in. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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