Lis Haddad (b. 1981, Belo Horizonte) is a visual artist and educator who lives and works in São Paulo. She works across textiles, drawing, sculpture, installation, expanded jewelry, and graphic practices. She is interested in craft techniques and methodologies that require repetition and time, revealing in the details of her practice minimal gestures within complex layers. Material experimentation is a recurring practice, and many of her works are conceived as site-specific installations or activatable pieces, which redefine the relationship between the work, the public, and the artist. Among her recent exhibitions are: XIV Florence Biennale (2023), The Well and the Pendulum (São Paulo, 2025), Refoundation (São Paulo, Ouro Preto, 2024), Mined Landscapes (São Paulo, Belém, Ouro Preto and Belo Horizonte, 2024), Water Bodies (Berlin, 2022), and Over (the) Mine (Munich, 2022). She participated in the Casco residency program (São Paulo, 2024), the Projekthof residency program (Germany, 2022), and the Artist in Residence Munich residency program (2022). She collaborates with the NGO Collective Webs and the transnational art education network Exploring Visual Cultures. She has presented her research at conferences such as the EVC Transnational Art Education Conference (South Africa, 2023) and the Exploring Visual Cultures Summer School – Documenta 15 seminar (Kassel, 2022). In 2022, she was a visiting student at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunst München (Germany). She served as coordinator of the Jewelry and Foundation Departments at the Arch Academy of Design (India, 2017–2018) and was a mentor at the Expanded Jewelry laboratory (Brazil/India, 2015–2018).
