Colette Leinman (born in France) lives and works in Israel where her first solo exhibition took place in 1990. Her artistic practice comes from an acute knowledge of Art but also from experimentation. For example, Leinman created concrete sculptures whilst boiling plants for several hours and adding them to the sand and cement water, hoping to create a vegetative life in the sculptures, which she then buried in her garden for a few months.

Her professional experience as a Teacher and Researcher at the University as well as her numerous Publications are related to Art. Thus, her Doctoral Thesis "The catalogs of surrealist exhibitions in Paris between 1924 and 1939" (Rodopi-Brill, 2015) brought a new look to the originality of the surrealism meta discourse on Art as well as on the strategies of constructing an avant-garde collective identity. 

Leinman works in parallel on different series which call out to each other, creating a dialog between them.