Bio

Sofía Zuluaga (Bogotá, 1989) has participated in the first exhibition by a Spanish museum dedicated to give visibility to the LGBT+ community (Una mirada LGTBI+ a la Colección del MEAM, Museu Europeu D’art Modern), the first exhibition dedicated to contemporary women painters in Spain (Mujeres Artistas Hoy ’17, MEAM Museum), and an exhibition featuring the top international female figurative artists (Women Painting, All Over the World ‘19, MEAM Museum).

She has exhibited internationally in museums and galleries including the Museo Pablo Serrano (Zaragoza, Spain), Museu Europeu D’art Modern (Barcelona, Spain), Museo de la Caja Real (San Luis Potosí, Mexico), Museo Primer Deposito (Guanajuato, Mexico) and Museum of Now (Berlin, Germany). Most recently, she was featured as a guest artist in BBC2’s Florence Episode of Rob and Rylan ́s Grand Tour.

She is currently based between Berlin and Miami.

Work

Painted in oils in loose expressive brushstrokes, Zuluaga depicts bound bodies - often her own -  in the nude, both as fragments and as a whole. 

The tension of bindings struggling against distorted human flesh rendered in vibrant colors creates stark visual contrasts and a feeling of unease in the viewer. 

Zuluaga seeks to represent non-tangible concepts with literal tools; the bodily subjugation alludes to invisible systems of oppression and control, challenging the viewer to question and examine their own moral tenets and limiting paradigms.

Infused with an aggressive spirit of rebellion, her work explores facets of societal conditioning (whether psychological, physical, or cultural) in order to open the doors to deeper conversations around gender, sexuality, and identity, while at the same time questioning contemporary beauty standards and aesthetics.