Visual artist and poet, Lenora de Barros graduated in Linguistics from the University of São Paulo (USP) and started her artistic career in the 1970s. The first works created by Lenora can be placed in the field of "visual poetry" in dialogue with the concrete poetry movement of the 1950s. Words and images were her first materials.
In 1983, LB published the book Onde se vê [Where one sees], a set of rather unusual “poems”: some of them even dispensing with the use of words, being constructed as photographic sequences where the artist herself acted out different characters in performance acts. This book already announced Lenora's transit to the field of visual arts. Since then, the artist has been constructing a work marked by the use of diversified media: video, performance, photography, sound installation and the creation of objects.
Her work is included in collections in Brazil and several other countries, among them the Hammer Museum (CA, USA), Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (Spain), Daros Latinamerica Collection (Switzerland), Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo (MAM) and Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo. Among the most important exhibitions she participated are the collective and individuals held at the Mexic-Art Museum (Austin, USA, 2002); 11th Lyon Biennale, (France, 2011); ISSOÉOSSODISSO at Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade (São Paulo, 2016); Migros Museum (Zurich, Switzerland, 2015); the 4th Thessaloniki Biennial of Contemporary Art (Greece, 2013); 17th, 24th and 30th International Biennial of São Paulo; 59th Venice Biennale – The Milk of Dreams (Venice, 2022), RETROMEMÓRIA,at MAM-SP – Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo [Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo] (2022), Tools for Utopia: Selected works from the Daros Latinamerica Collection, at Kunstmuseum Bern (Bern,2020).