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Nationality
  
Brazilian

Known for
  
Sculpture

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Born
  
1948 (age 68–69)
Caetanópolis, Brazil

Sonia gomes


Sonia Gomes (born 1948) is an Afro-Brazilian contemporary artist based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. She is known for her mixed media sculptures made of fabric, wires, and other objects that are either found or given to her.

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Background

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Sonia Gomes was born to a black mother and white father in Caetanópolis, a small town considered to be the birthplace of the textile industry in Brazil, in 1948. Gomes joined the art world relatively late, at around the age of 45, but claimed the creative process was a way to free her from her upbringing.

Work

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Gomes uses fabric, threads, and objects that are either gifts or found to create multi-dimensional sculptures and structures.Much of her work has been described as auto-biographical.

Solo Exhibitions

Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY, November 2014.

Group Exhibitions


  • "Art & Textiles: Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present," at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany, 2013.
  • "Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 – 2016", Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, Los Angeles, 2016
  • “Histórias/Histories: Contemporary Art From Brazil”, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Florida, USA, 2016
  • "No Man’s Land: Women Artists From The Rubell Family Collection”, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, EUA, 2015
  • “All the World’s Futures”, 56 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, 2014
  • “19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Video Brasil: Southern Panoramas”, Associação Cultural Video Brasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2014
  • “The Poetry in Between: South to South”, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, 2014

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    References

    Sonia Gomes Wikipedia
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