Born 1978, Lisbon, Portugal
Lives and works in Boston, MA
Education:
2006 MFA, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, UK
2001 BA (Hons), Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Solo Exhibitions (Selection):
2019
Perpetual dizziness, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY
2017
Condo 2017, Simone Subal Gallery hosted by The Approach, London, UK
2016
cupping the hand behind the ear, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY
2014
Forward, Pause, Play, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
2013
The Event We Call Seeing, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY
Liste, Basel, Switzerland
2012
The Angle of the Sun’s Rays, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY
2011
The Reader, T293, Rome, Italy
2010
Frieze Art Fair, London, UK
2009
Art Positions, Art Basel Miami Beach, FL
To Be abstract, Chiado 8, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
Crox 304, Croxaphox, Ghent, Belgium
2006
Open Space, ART Cologne, Cologne, Germany
2005
Is this my painting?, T293, Naples, Italy
2003
Before it fades, Galeria Monumental, Lisbon, Portugal
Group Exhibitions (selection):
2021
Museu Julio Pomar, Lisbon, Portugal (forthcoming)
2020
Grimm, New York, NY (forthcoming)
2019
Kith + Kin, Lunder Arts Center, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
Bookworks, Tisch and Koppelman Galleries, Tufts University Art Galleries, Boston, MA
LISTE, Basel, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY
2018
USPS, Visual Arts, Architecture and Design School, University of Tbilisi, Georgia
2018-2019 Visual and Environmental Studies Visiting Faculty, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Frieze New York, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY
You Never Know How You Look Through Other People’s Eyes, ICA at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2017
James and Audrey Foster Prize Exhibition, ICA, Boston, MA
Later is Now, WORKPLACE, London, UK
2016
Conversations:Recent Portuguese Art in the Serralves Collection, The Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
Untitled Body Parts, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY
2015
Background Image, Museum Fine of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Au sud d’aujourd’hui, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, France
2014
12 Contemporâneos, Estados Presentes, Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal
2013
deCordova Biennial, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Boston, MA
2012
Plentitude, Carl Freedman Gallery, London, UK
a project by Lucie Fontaine, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
Modern Talking, Muzeul National de Arta Cluj-Napoca, Romania
2011
Painting Overall, Prague Biennale 5, Prague, Czech Republic
Four Rooms, Centrum Sztuki Wspóczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland
2010
Acts Are For Actors, Southfirst Gallery, New York, NY
Arrivals And Departures_Europe, Mole Vanvitelliana Foundation, Ancona, Italy
2009
New American Talent 24th Exhibition, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX
EDP Novos Artistas, Museum of Electricity, Lisbon, Portugal
2008
Through a Glass Darkly, Kenny Schachter ROVE, London, UK
IV Castellon County Council International Painting Prize, Spain
2007
OUTPOST selected by Gavin Turk, Norwich, UK
Transformer, Woburn Square Research Centre, London, UK
Prémio Fidelidade Mundial Jovens Pintores, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
2006
The Elementary Particles (Paperback Edition), Standard (OSLO), Norway
MFA Degree Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
Light and Colour, Slade Research Centre, Woburn Square, London, UK
2005
Printing matters, Witte De With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2004
Kettle’s OPEN, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK
International Biennial Exhibition of Calcography, Venice, Italy
2003
Argument 10!, Argument, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Bibliography
2019
Aima, Rahel. “Sonia Almeida: Perpetual Dizziness,” ArtReview. March, 2019. Print.
2017
Estremo, Vincenzo. “Fight the future: Later Is Now at Workplace Gallery, London,” Droste Effect. November 13, 2017.
“Later Is Now,” C-Print. November, 2017.
2016
Gat, Orit. “Critic’s Guide: New York,” Frieze. May 2, 2016.
2014
Gonzalez, Desi. “Sonia Almeida,” Art in America. May, 2014. Print.
2013
Garza, Evan J. “Sonia Almeida,” 2013 Decordova Biennial Catalogue, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, page 14.
2012
“Sonia Almeida,” The New Yorker, March 19 2012, page 14.
Grants/Fellowships/Awards:
2019 Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship
2015 Pollock-Krasner Grant
2005 Arts and Humanities Research Council, London, UK
2005 Slade Prize in Fine Art, UCL, London, UK
2003 Noord Brabant Fonds voor Beeldende Kunstenaars, The Netherlands
Residencies:
2006 Utopia, Artist Residency, Retimno, Crete, Greece
2005 Young artist’s program, Venice, Italy
Publications/ Artist books:
2009 Sample, artist book, author edition, offset, 50 copies
2007 Nostalgia, artist book, author edition, handmade, 24 pp, ed. 6 books
2006 Green, artist book, author edition, handmade, ed. 15 books
2003 Frozen Objects, artist book, author edition, digital offset, ed. 50 books