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Sofía Córdova (b.1985 in Carolina, Puerto Rico) is an American artist and musician who is based in Oakland, CA. Córdova is also one half of the music duo, XUXA SANTAMARIA, along with her partner, Matt Gonzalez Kirkland.

Early life and education
Sofía Córdova was born in 1985 in Carolina, Puerto Rico. She studied Photography and Biology at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, graduating with an AA in 2003. She studied photography at St. John's University in Queens, NY, graduating with a BFA in 2006, and concurrently took part in the General Studies Program at the International Center of Photography in New York, NY. She completed her MFA at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA in 2010. She is currently based in Oakland, California.

Work
As a visual artist, in works such as the 2-channel video dawn chorus ii: el niagara en bicicleta, Córdova deals in “fictions and histories, which are both world-depicting and world-making, [bringing] together personal material, historical elements, and techniques from science fiction.”