Biography
Sofía Gallisá Muriente is a Puerto Rican visual artist whose work resists colonial forces of erasure and claims the freedom of historical agency, proposing mechanisms for remembering and reimagining. Through multiple approaches to documentation and a collaborative research practice, she deepens the subjectivity of historical narratives. Her pieces employ text, image and archive as medium and subject, exploring their poetic and political implications. Sofía has been a fellow of the Smithsonian Institute and the Flaherty Seminar, and participated in residencies such as Alice Yard (Trinidad & Tobago), FAARA (Uruguay) and Fonderie Darling (Montreal). She has exhibited in the Whitney Biennial, the Queens Museum, ifa Galerie in Berlin, CCA Glasgow, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, and galleries like Km 0.2, El Lobi and Embajada. From 2014 to 2020, she co-directed the artist-run organization Beta-Local, dedicated to fostering knowledge exchange and transdisciplinary practices. She is currently a fellow of the Puerto Rican Arts Initiative and the Cisneros Institute at MoMA.
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Biography
Sofía Gallisá Muriente is a Puerto Rican visual artist whose work resists colonial forces of erasure and claims the freedom of historical agency, proposing mechanisms for remembering and reimagining. Through multiple approaches to documentation and a collaborative research practice, she deepens the subjectivity of historical narratives. Her pieces employ text, image and archive as medium and subject, exploring their poetic and political implications. Sofía has been a fellow of the Smithsonian Institute and the Flaherty Seminar, and participated in residencies such as Alice Yard (Trinidad & Tobago), FAARA (Uruguay) and Fonderie Darling (Montreal). She has exhibited in the Whitney Biennial, the Queens Museum, ifa Galerie in Berlin, CCA Glasgow, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico, and galleries like Km 0.2, El Lobi and Embajada. From 2014 to 2020, she co-directed the artist-run organization Beta-Local, dedicated to fostering knowledge exchange and transdisciplinary practices. She is currently a fellow of the Puerto Rican Arts Initiative and the Cisneros Institute at MoMA.
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