Location: Oakland, CA and Puerto Rico
Medium: Video, performance
Website: sofiacordova.com
Sofía Córdova was born in 1985 in Carolina, Puerto Rico, and lives and works between Oakland, California and the Puerto Rican archipelago. She received her BFA from St. John’s University in New York in 2006 and her MFA from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco in 2010. She is one half of XUXA SANTAMARIA, an experimental music and performance duo that scores much of her video work.
Her practice has been recognized with a Creative Work Fund grant, and her work is held in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and Pier 24 Photography in San Francisco. She has participated in residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Eyebeam in New York, Mills College Art Museum, and Arizona State University Museum.
Córdova works in video, performance, sound, photography, sculpture, installation, and occasionally taxidermy. Her practice weaves together science fiction as alternative history, the liberatory dimensions of dance music, colonial contamination, climate change, and migration. She is particularly known for creating elaborate fictional future timelines that serve as distorted mirrors of the present, refusing to be pinned down to any single genre or movement — feminist, queer, Afrofuturist, and environmental art registers coexist within the same body of work.
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