(b.) 1984, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Education

2008 M.F.A. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York

2006 B.F.A Escuela de Artes Plasticas, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2002 Sculpture and Installation Seminar, School of Visual Arts, New York

Solo Exhibitions

2013 B.O.Y, Nepenthes New York, New York

Into Gray, Magnan Metz Gallery, New York, NY

2012 Fever: Tropical Nostalgias and Urban Anxieties in Sofia Maldonado, Museo Arte Contemporaneo de Puerto Rico
TITLE? Isaac Lincoln Gallery at Northern State University, Aberdeen, SD
 

2011 Disillusions, Studio Theater Gallery, Middlesex County College, Edison, NJ
(R)AMPED, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Cornell Fine Arts Museum Rollins College, Winterpark, FL

2010 Letargo: Tinta y Sangre, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Puerto Rico 
Concrete Jungle Divas, Magnan Metz Gallery, New York, NY
Bling Bling, Witzenhausen Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
42nd Street Project, Times Square Alliance Mural Project, New York, NY
CIRCA Puerto Rico, Magnan Metz Gallery, New York NY
                       

2009 Graffiti Gone Global (Art Basel Miami special project), Miami, FL
Taller Puertorriqueño, Philadelphia, PA
Skate my Patria, Tenth Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
CIRCA Puerto Rico, Magnan Projects, New York, NY

               
2008 Special Artist Project, Pinta Art Fair, New York, NY
 

2007 The Tropical Storm, Magnan Metz Gallery, New York, NY
 

2006 Sofía... en la isla, Galería Candela, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Group Exhibitions

2014 Magnan Metz Group Exhibition: Destination Unknown, Magnan Metz Gallery, New York, NY 

Art Album, Castle Fitzjohns Gallery, New York, NY

2013 Nu-Yo-Rican, Hunter College East Harlem Art Gallery, New York, NY

Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft & Design, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY
On Painting, Modern Art Atlantic Centre (CAAM), Las Palmas, Gran Canaria

2012 Purple, Causey Contemporary, Brooklyn NY

Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft & Design, Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
This Side of Paradise, No Longer Empty, Bronx, NY

Diasporas, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, PR

Into the Mix, The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, KY

Concrete Illusions: Public and Private Spaces in Puerto Rico: Exploring the urban dimensions of the

Caribeean, La Galeria de IBA at the Villa Victoria Center for the Arts, Boston, MA

2011 Title?  The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
The (S) Files, El Museo Bienal, New York, NY
 

2010 The Art of Basket Ball, Public Work Departments, Miami, FL
Eames Inspirations, Barney, New York, NY

Announcing Magnan Metz, Magnan Metz Gallery, New York, NY

Paper Dolls, M.I.S.S Fifty 24 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2009 The Good, the Bad & the Ugly, Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY
Synesthsia, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA

Girl by Girls, Spacejunk Gallery, St. Maurice; Bayone; and Grenoble, France

Hybridity, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
Real Arts Ways, Frog Hollow & Parkville Neighborhood, Hartford, CT

2008 V Certamen de Pintura Diputación de Castellón, CITY? Spain

En Sus Marcas, Institiuto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, Puerto Rico

Dia de Los Muertos, Magia Gallery, Los Angeles , CA

Younity: Heart & Soul, Alphabeta, Greenpoint, NY

Graphopoli, Urban Art Biennial, Museo de Puerto Rico

Graduate Show 08’, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NY

Girl by Girls, Spacejunk Gallery, St. Maurice; Bayone; and Grenoble, France

MFA Exchange, Virginia Commonwealth, Richmond, Virginia

2007 M4 Design Project, Design District, Miami, FL

SFiles 2007-Biennial, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY

Espacio Disponible, Museum of Caribbean University, Bayamon, Puerto Rico
Coca Cola Graffiti Series, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Santurce, Puerto Rico

Pratt MFA Students Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY

Hoy, Black Box Art Foundation, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2006 Sao Paulo - Sao Juan, (with Os Gemeos, Dzine & Cudy Hudson) Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico

'06 Graduated Students Exhibition, Museo de las Americas, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Paint to Flash, Montana Gallery, Sevilla, Spain

Returned Mail, Galeria Carlos Irizarry, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2005 Mural Painting, Galería Comercial, Santurce, Puerto Rico

Sofia, Café Seda, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Nothing, Tag Rom, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

Annual Exhibition, Escuela de Artes Plásticas, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Juni, Bik, Sofia, Galeria Carlos Irizarry, Puerto Rico

Papa Jac Collectable Series, Don Pablo, Puerto Rico

2004 Truck (at Luna St.), Sin Titulo Galería de Arte Contemporáneo, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Awards

2010 Public Art Project, Rockefeller
Brothers
Fund
and
Times
Square
Alliance, New York,
NY

2009 Cuban
Artist
Fund,
studio
program
at
Chashama,
NY Vermont
Studio
Center,
 Vermont
 

2008-2010 Cuban Artist Fund, studio program at Chashama, New York

2009 Vermont Studios Center, artist residency, Vermont

2006 Escuela de Artes Plasticas, ARCO, Spain

Selected Press

2010 Art
Talk:
Hoop
Scoop,
Art
News,
Robin
Cembalest

Vigoroso
Letargo,
El
Nuevo
Dia,
Puerto
Rico

Why
Can’t
These
Women
be
Beautiful,
NYArtBeat,
A.
Scigaj

Sofía
desata
controversia
en
Nueva
York,
El
Nuevo
Dia,
Gloribel
Delgado

Alexandre
Arrechea
and
Sofia
Maldonado
in
Times
Square,
Arte
Al
Dia
Internacional

Street
Wise
Latina,
NY
Daily
News,
Erasmo
Guerra

Looking
Hard
at
Looking
Good,
New
York
Times,
J.
DAVID
GOODMAN

CIRCA
‘10:
Art
in
Puerto
Rico,
Flavor
Pill,
Paul
Laste

2009 Reinhold,
El
Nuevo
Dia,
by
Leyra
Gonzalez

Innovators, Americas Quarterly, Danielle Renwick

Sofia
Maldonado:
Skate
My
Patria,
CoolHunting,
by
Tamara
Warren

Anarcho‐Muralist,
New
York
Magazine
(May),
by
Alexandra
Peers

Skating
a
lo
Cubano,
American
Quarterly,
by
Danielle
Renwick

2008 Los
Murors
pintados
de
futuro,
El
Nuevo
Dia,
by
Gloribel
Delgado

Sofia
Maldonado,
Tropical
Storm,
Art
In
America,
by
Faye
Hirsch

Sofia
Maldonado,
Art
Nexus,
by
Graciela
Kartofe

Flavor:
Skatebowl,
Puerto
Rico,
Culture
Serve,
by
Diana
McClure

2007 Featured
Artist:
Sofia
Maldonado,
by
Diana
McClure

Expresion
Urbana,
Imagen
Magazine,
by
Male
Nogueras

Las
nenas
de
Sofia,
El
Nuevo
Dia,
newspaper,
Puerto
Rico