Photography by Raquel Pérez Puig at San Juan 721 Residency (2024)
Sofía del Mar Collins (b.1995, San Juan, Puerto Rico) completed her MFA in Studio Art at Hunter College (2021) and received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College where she graduated with the Geraldine Putnam Prize for Visual Arts (2017). Recent solo exhibitions include Pleno vuelo inconsistente as part of the Projects section curated by Carla Acevedo Yates in ARTBO 2025 (Bogotá, Colombia), To turn into rain and fall again at Uffner&Liu previously Rachel Uffner Gallery (New York, 2024), Nadie en casa at Souvenir 154/PerezPuig, San Juan, PR (2023). Group exhibitions include her participation in La 3ra Gran Bienal Tropical (Loiza, Puerto Rico, 2025), FAMILY/TREE (Chozick Family Art Gallery, New York, 2025), Perspectives (Embajada, San Juan, PR, 2025), Art Basel Miami Beach (2024), Cortar, Coser, Quebrar, Cuidar, Quemar (Souvenir 154/PerezPuig, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2024), En busca del paisaje perdido (El Nuevo Hidrante, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2022), Extra Terrestrial (Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, 2022). Her work forms part of Fidelity Investments Corporate Art Collection, the Jorge M. Pérez Collection, and Green Family Art Foundation. Sofía del Mar Collins lives and creates from San Juan, Puerto Rico.
In dreaming while making, I search to connect with the past, cultivate lucidity in the present, and set in motion perspectives for an adaptable, sensible, and yet suspicious future. While painting in the expanded sense serves as a primary site for the emergence of image-sensations, textile processes, such as sewing, embroidery, dying with natural pigments, and weaving make their presence throughout my practice.
I am interested in blurring differences between craft and fine art mediums, as well as modes of perceiving mysticism in matter. A growing practice of working with natural fibers moves me to embrace the poetic potentials embedded in diverse surfaces. Grounded in the exchange of place and spirit, my projects engage spatial dynamics and material circularities where boundaries between the birth and decay of images flood from bodily affect towards a changing, interstitial landscape.