Leandro Katz (Buenos Aires, 1938) is an Argentine artist, poet, writer, and filmmaker. Since the mid-1960s, following an extended journey through Latin America, his work has brought together writing, film, photography, and installation, incorporating language, historical and anthropological research, and the photographic and cinematographic iconography of real or imaginary events. He lived in New York for several decades and has resided in Buenos Aires since 2005.
He is the author of books, artist’s books, and narrative, non-narrative, and installation films. His literary publications include Es una ola (1968, Editorial Sudamericana), Bedlam Days: The Early Plays of Charles Ludlam and The Ridiculous Theatrical Company (2019, Viper’s Tongue Books), and Los danzantes (2022, Paradiso Ediciones). In the field of artist’s books and editorial projects, notable works include S(h)elf Portrait 1972 (2008, Viper’s Tongue Books), Historia natural (2010, Viper’s Tongue Books), Los fantasmas de Ñancahuazú (2010, Viper’s Tongue Books), Words Phrases Sentences / Palabras frases oraciones (2016, Viper’s Tongue, arte-blogarte, and Henrique Faria), and The Catherwood Project: Incidents of Visual Reconstructions and Other Matters (in collaboration with Jesse Lerner, 2018, University of New Mexico Press). Among his films and videos are El día que me quieras (1997), Paradox (2001), Exhumación (2007), and Un amor por 3 o 4 naranjas / A Love for 3 or 4 Oranges (2015). These works are complemented by long-term projects and installations such as Proyecto para el día que me quieras, Vortex, and Tania, Masks and Trophies, which focus on Latin American history, political memory, and the intersections between archive, image, and document.
His works are included in national and international collections, among them those of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires; the Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid; MUAC, Mexico City; MALI, Lima; the Blanton Museum, Austin; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Pérez Art Museum, Miami; and the Getty Museum, California. He has received support from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Hubert Bals Fund, and CIFO–Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, and was awarded the National Prize for Artistic Career of the Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales.
