Sofía Acosta Mentorship Awards recipient

Sofía Acosta is an interdisciplinary artist based in Ecuador. Sofía’s practice encompasses installation, the intervention of photographs, archives, cartography, and testimonials, culminating in the use of graphics and murals. Her work represents an aesthetic-political statement that at once challenges established gender narratives and explores a post-extractivist art proposal, igniting a debate on contemporary notions of territory. 

Sofía has participated in various solo and group exhibitions in various independent galleries, such as “Landscape/Territory: Imaginaries of the Jungle in Visual Arts” curated by Ana Rosa Valdéz, at MAAC – Guayaquil or “Overground Resistance” curated by Oliver Ressler, at CAC – Quito. She was part of the first Bienal das Amazônias in Belém – Brazil. Sofía also curated “Ordinary” at FLACSO: a group exhibition that explored interactions that hadn't been legitimized due to their association with domesticity, femininity, or ordinariness. Additionally, in 2018, she was a workshop leader in “Human Rights and Arts” at Harvard University.