Mi camino…
I am a Puerto Rican, half-Cuban artist who currently lives and works in the southeast of the Borikén archipelago.
My process is deeply connected to the natural environment around me: mountains, the ocean, migrating birds, and silence.
Guided by these natural elements, my artistic journey unfolds as a poetic experience, exploring a range of media from plein-air painting to ceramic installations, colorful illustration, and audiovisual compositions.
Bio.
Sofía Maldonado-Suárez is a Puerto Rican artist, half Cuban, who currently lives and works in Yabucoa, on the southeast coast of the Borikén archipelago. Her works are poetic experiences of color abstraction, guided by her passion for ethnobotanical environments, mythology, and storytelling. She travels intuitively under the avatar of "La Ninfaaa", a character from her imagination that weaves ancestral knowledge with land and place. Her public art fosters a sense of community and interaction with the organic aspects of life and popular culture, inspiring viewers to feel grounded and present.
She obtained a BFA from the Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico, an MFA in Fine Arts from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and a Master's degree in Virtual and Augmented Reality from U-Tad in Madrid, Spain. Her work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum Biennial, the Museo del Barrio Biennial, and the Museum of Art and Design in New York; PST: LA/LA, MOLAA, California; the Biennial of Asunción, Paraguay; CAAM, Gran Canaria; the Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico; and the Biennale of Havana, Cuba.
Maldonado had developed public art projects for Real Arts Ways, in Connecticut; the Bronx Museum, PWC, Manhattan Community Arts Fund Grant, and Time Square Alliance, in New York; Twitch HQ, in Los Angeles; Turning Arts, in Boston; Ritz Carlton, Dorado; T-Mobile District, Foundation for Puerto Rico, and the Museum of Puerto Rico, in San Juan. She has taught at the University of Puerto Rico, Escuela de Artes Plásticas, and Caribbean University in Puerto Rico. Some inspiring collaborations include VANS, Coca-Cola, Chocolates Cortez, the Latin Grammys, and Banco Popular de Puerto Rico.