Sonia Almeida

Assistant Professor of Fine Arts

Departments/Programs

Fine Arts

Degrees

University College London, M.F.A.
University of Lisbon, B.A.

Expertise

Visual Arts
Painting
Drawing
Printmaking
Artist Books

Profile

Sonia Almeida was born in 1978 in Lisbon, Portugal. She lives and works in Boston and teaches at Brandeis University since 2014. Her courses are in Printmaking, Artists' Books and Fabric Arts
Her work is an investigation into the ways that language is learned, shared and adapted in processes of fragmentation and multiplicity. She is interested in how it relates to questions of agency and power.
Almeida’s artworks explore disparate yet connected visual languages brought together within a single work.
The expressiveness of the mark, image creation, sequence and duration have guided her to combine different ways of painting and more sculptural pieces using hinges or sliding mechanisms.
Her paintings and books expresses a thorough reflection on the limits, the hierarchized rules, and the directives set by the historical codes of painting.

Courses Taught

FA	12a	Introduction to Printmaking: Intaglio
FA	12b	Introduction to Printmaking: Woodcut and Relief
FA	13b	Intermediate Drawing II
FA	15a	Intermediate Printmaking
FA	17b	Printmaking: Silkscreen
FA	27a	Fabric Workshop
FA	27b	Book Arts and Editions

Awards and Honors

Jane and Theodore Norman Award, Brandeis University (2019 - 2020)

Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation Fellowship (2019)

2017 James and Audrey Foster Prize (2017)

James and Audrey Foster Prize (2017)

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2015)

Artist Fellowship Massachusetts Cultural Council (2014)

Scholarship

Aima, Rahel. "Perpetual Dizziness." Art Review March 2019: pg. 155.

Almeida, Sonia, author. Book of Patterns,. unique ed. Arlington, MA: self published, 2020.

Almeida, Sonia. Bookworks. group Show, August 22 – December 15, 2019. Tufts Universty Art Galleries, Medford, MA.

Almeida, Sonia. Kith + Kin: Friends and Mentors of Lesley MFA in Visual Arts. Group Show, Nov 7, 2019 - Dec 5, 2019. Lesley University, Cambridge.

Almeida, Sonia. Perpetual dizziness. solo Show, January 6 – February 10, 2019. Simone Subal Gallery, New York City.

Almeida, Sonia. Ver as vozes dos artistas #2. Group Show, October 18 2019 — December 20 2019. Public art Project, Porto, Portugal.

Brock , Hovey. "Vantage Points." The Brooklyn Rail ArtSeen. October 2020 (2020): online.

Correia de Sousa , Filipa.. "Turning rigidity into lightness." Contemporanea Magazine Oct. 2020: pp.148-155.

McQuaid , Cate.. "Boston artists put domestic violence awareness on the table”." Boston Globe 10.13. 2020: Art online.

Harrington, Leah. "A Whole Culture: The Institute of Contemporary Art." The Brooklyn Rail APRIL 1ST, 2017.

(not signed),. "Review,." Art in America 2014: pg. 171.

(not signed). "Reviews In Brief, NY." Modern Painters 2014: pg92.

Almeida, Sonia. Sonia Almeida. 1000 ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT List Visual Arts Center, 2015.

Suzanne Hudson. Painting Now. 2015 ed. NYC: Thames & Hudson, 2015.