Cecilia André is a painter, from a family of Lebanese immigrants to Brazil. She lives and works in New York since 1991.

Cecilia has a BFA and a BAE from FAAP (Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation) in São Paulo, Brazil. In the US, she studied at the New York Studio School, and did coursework at Pratt Institute and School of Visual Arts. With an extensive background in art education, Cecilia has taught color theory at Lasar Segall Museum, painting at São Paulo Cultural Center and Equipe School in Brazil, and art and mythology at PS6 in the US.

Recently, Cecilia was one of the six female women of diverse ethnicities selected by the non-for-profit organization Ankhlave.org to receive a Queens Council of Arts grant for a participatory, outdoor installation at the Queens Botanical Garden, that ran from July to September 2020. Currently her work is featured in the group show “Someone Will Remember Us ,even from another time” by LIC artists at Culture Lab in Long Island City,