BIOGRAPHY
Guatemalan artist. Sofia graduated as an architect and lighting designer. In recent years she combined her work with art, being part of different painting, photography, and art history workshops. Throughout her career, she has intervened hundreds of canvases, objects, and walls to create large-scale murals and pieces. Her work seeks to create characters inspired by their environment, context, and history.
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COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION:
2017 – Arte colectivo CC La Noria
2018 – CC Fontabella
2018 – Arte de los Próceres
2019 – Dos a Dos
2020- Amor a la Vida, Integra Cancer Institute
2021 – Galeria Bishop
2022 – Galeria Ak lighting
2023 – Moisaico Latinoamericano
PUBLIC ART AND MONUMENT INTERVENTIONS:
2019 – NUDOS | Mural | AVITA | Guatemala
2019 – MAPAS | Mural | Hotel Ibagari Roatán | Honduras
2019 – FLORES Y MARANTAS | Mural | Edificio MARANTA | Guatemala
2020 – ENTRE FLORES URBANAS | Mural | Edificio QUO z.4 | Guatemala
2020 – BOLARDOS 4 GRADOS NORTE | Monument intervention| Centro Cultural Municipal Alvaro Arzu | Guatemala
OPUESTOS | Mural| Restaurante Rosa Alacrán | Guatemala
2020 – ANATOMIA DINAMICA| Mural| Edifio AVIA | Guatemala
PIXELES | Mural | Edifio AVIA | Guatemala
2021 – MEMORIAS | Monument intervention | GRUPO TIKIN | Peten Guatemala
2021 – MUJER DE MAIZ | Mural | DESGIN HOUSE Z.14 | Guatemala
2022 – MUJER DE MAIZ 2.0 | Mural| CARMELO CONCEPT VILLAS| Antigua, Guatemala
2022 – VOLANDO ALTO | Mural CARMELO CONCEPT VILLAS| Antigua, Guatemala
2023 – FLORES ALELI | Mural | Restaurante Aleli | Guatemala
2023 – SOMOS CALLE | Mural and Monument intervention| PARQUE BICENTENARIO | Guatemala
2023 – ABSTRACTO | Mural and Monument intervention| Avita | Guatemala
STATEMENT
Painting has been a part of my life uninterruptedly since I was 6. In 2019, I decided to share my art publicly. Painting has always been a way for me to communicate, even without being clear about why I paint what I paint and how I create it. At the age of 35, I was given a diagnosis that came to be the answer to many questions. It is an immune syndrome that attacks the bone marrow, causing it to lose physical sensations throughout the body. My body goes into an anesthetized state, and I stop feeling temperatures, textures, strength, intensity, and movement.
When I paint, I don’t feel anything. With the last crisis, I had to completely rethink my artistic process, as I understood that the syndrome, like art, was already a part of my life. As a result of this, I began to explore and study emotions from a mental and physical state, so my pieces represent two worlds. A world where emotions are THOUGHT OF (rational), and others where emotions are FELT (ideally).
