SIN AGUA

Sofía Córdova lives and works between her native Puerto Rico and Oakland, CA. Her work considers sci-fi as alternative history, dance music's liberatory dimensions, climate change and migration, and most recently, revolution, historical and imagined, within the matrix of class, gender, race, late capitalism and its evolving technologies. She works in performance, video, sound, music, installation, photography, and sometimes taxidermy. She is one half of the music duo, XUXA SANTAMARIA. In addition to discrete projects, they collectively score all of her video work.

Her work has been exhibited and performed nationally and internationally at The Whitney Museum of American Art, Tufts University Galleries, the Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, SFMOMA, the Arizona State University Museum, the Vincent Price Museum, the Wattis Institute, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (USA), as well as the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo (Puerto Rico), Art Hub (Shanghai) and MEWO Kunsthalle (Germany).  The same is part of The Kadist’s and The Whitney Museum's permanent collections. She has participated in residencies at Eyebeam, NY, Headlands Center for the Arts, Mills College Museum, CA, and the ASU Museum, AZ and composed and choreographed performances for the SF Arts Commission, Merce Cunningham Trust and Soundwave Biennial. She is a recipient of a Fundación Ama Amoedo Grant, a Creative Work Fund Grant and is a 2023 Artadia Awardee.

Image Credits: Sofía Córdova, SIN AGUA, installation view, MOCA Tucson, 2023. Photograph by Maya Hawk. Sofía Córdova, SIN AGUA ii. subtle suffering (video still), 2017-2022; Sofía Córdova, SIN AGUA i. expectation crowned by its own desire (video still), 2017; Sofía Córdova, SIN AGUA i. expectation crowned by its own desire (video still), 2017.