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Sofia Cordova

DNA Spoofing - 2.jpg CHANGE IMAGE Heather Dewey-Hagborg (photo from her 2013 project DNA Spoofing) Born	1985 Carolina, Puerto Rico Residence	Oakland, California, U.S. Occupation	Artist Website	http://www.sofiacordova.com/

Bio
Sofia Cordova (born 1985, Carolina, Puerto Rico) is a multi-media artist based in Oakland, California. Her body of work includes performance, video, installation, and collage. She created the persona of [http://www.sofiacordova.com/ChuCha-Santamaria-y-Usted ChuCha Santamaria, whom she describes as a mutable and omnipresent figure based on various stereotypes of the pan-"Latin"/ Caribbean performer. Later versions of this persona have emerged as speculative figures from 1000 years in the future. Her interests include histories and experiences of colonization and assimilation, popular dance music and speculative science fiction.

Education and Residency Awards
Cordova received an MFA from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco California in 2010 and a BFA in Photography from St. John's University. She participated in the General Studies Program at the International Center for Photography, New York in 2006.

Cordova has been awarded many residencies including; the A+P+I residency at Mills College Art Museum (2017), Headlands Center for the Arts Residency on Climate Change (2016), Boricua Scholarship and Acre residency (2016), Arteles Neo-Future Residency, Haukijärvi, Finland (2016), Bay Area Video Coalition Residency (2016) and a Kala Fellowship Award (2014-15).

Significant Works
Cordova's work is in the collections of Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, California and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

External Links[edit source] Sofia Cordova the artists website

Selected Exhibitions

 * 2017 - Art + Process + Inquiry, Mills College Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
 * 2017 - AfroCaribbean Mythologies, ACRE, Chicago, IL
 * 2017 - Sabbath, Dorthy Saxe Invitational Exhibition, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA

Reviews and Press

 * Sofía Córdova, First Look, Brandon Brown, Art in America, February Issue, 2017 (pdf)
 * Artslant Wednesday Web Artist of the Week Interview, Christian Petersen, March 8, 2017
 * Interview and video premiere, Mask Magazine, February 10, 2017
 * After Pop Life Feature, DJ Pangburn, VICE's The Creator's Project, October 3, 2016
 * XUXA SANTAMARIA interview, KALX Radio, March, 18, 2016
 * Odes to the end of time: imagining a radical new future, Amelia Rina, Blunderbuss Magazine, February 23, 2016
 * Review of Bilongo Esmeralda (Let The Devil Take Style), Genevieve Quick, Art Practical, September 24, 2015
 * Sofía Córdova Lives In The Future, Interview with Will Bundy, Wine and Bowties, September 22, 2015
 * Review of Bilongo Esmeralda (Let The Devil Take Style), Stacy Nguyen, The Daily Californian, September 20, 2015
 * Review of Bilongo Esmeralda (Let The Devil Take Style), Aaron Harbour, Curiously Direct, September 9, 2015
 * Critic's Pick, Bilongo Esmeralda (Let The Devil Take Style), Sarah Burke, East Bay Express, September, 2015
 * Muse in The Machine?, Sam Lefebvre, East Bay Express, July 8, 2015
 * Review of Every Night I Tell Myself I Am The Cosmos, Brandon Brown, Art Practical, November 4, 2014
 * Review of Every Night I Tell Myself I Am The Cosmos, Aaron Harbour, Curiously Direct,October 23, 2014
 * Tides of Time, A.J. Kiyoizumi, East Bay Express, October 15, 2014
 * English Spanish Bilingualism in Indie Music: This Is El Futuro, Karla Hernandez, Redefine Magazine, February 24, 2014
 * Beyond What the Eye Can See: Sofia Cordova's Sound and Vision, Rachel Walther, CCA Alum Magazine/CCA.edu, February 10, 2014
 * ChuCha at the Ship's Helm, Whitney Phaneuf, East Bay Express, April 24, 2013
 * ChuCha Santamaria y Usted Review, Club Fonograma, Carlos Reyes, 2012
 * Hello, all but forgotten piece of 1970s feminist Earth Art, have you ever seen a transsexual before?, Jackie Clay, Daily Serving, February 14, 2012
 * ChuCha Santamaria Fever, Ellen Cushing, East Bay Express, February 29, 2012
 * ChuCha Santamaria y Usted Review, PopMatters, Josh Langhoff, July 25, 2011
 * Review, On the Ground, Nirmala Nataraj, San Francisco Chronicle, March 17, 2011

Gallery
[upload images from SC]