My work unfolds as a poetic journey.
Is a Puerto Rican artist of Cuban descent, based in the southeastern region of Borikén. In 2026, she founded ATELIER ANAMÚ - hábitat for creatives - to nurture artistic growth and serve as a peaceful hub for artists from around the world in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico.
Her process is deeply connected to the coastal landscape and how painting reconnects with memory, storytelling, and myth. I understand bodies of water as portals to the subconscious. Choosing to live near the Caribbean Sea is an act of remembering!
Bio.
Sofía Maldonado-Suárez is a Puerto Rican artist of Cuban descent based in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico. Her paintings are visual poems that foster a spontaneous perspective on ethnobotanical environments of the Caribbean. Painting outdoors awakens her memory to nature, allowing transformation and storytelling to emerge. With expressive brushstrokes, she creates mythical chromatic fields that become portals for the viewer.
Maldonado-Suárez holds a BFA from the Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico, an MFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and a Master’s in Virtual and Augmented Reality from U-Tad in Madrid.
Her work has been exhibited at major institutions, including the Whitney Museum Biennial, Museo del Barrio Biennial, and the Museum of Art and Design in New York, as well as internationally at PST: LA/LA, MOLAA, the Biennial of Asunción, CAAM in Gran Canaria, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico, and the Biennale of Havana. She has designed public art projects for Real Arts Ways (Connecticut), the Bronx Museum, and the Times Square Alliance (New York), among others, and has collaborated with organizations including Vans, Coca-Cola, and the Latin Grammys. Maldonado-Suárez has also taught at several universities and community organizations in the United States and Puerto Rico.