Sonia Navarro
Puerto Lumbreras, Murcia, 1975
Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Granada
Sonia Navarro learned sewing and tailoring from her grandmothers before earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts and a Master’s Degree in Photography.
She has been awarded several prizes and grants, including the Rome Scholarship and the Visual Arts and Photography Prize granted by the Ministry of Culture.
She has held solo exhibitions in national and international galleries such as:
T20 (Murcia),
T20 Fourquet (Madrid),
Mas Art (Barcelona),
Ad Hoc (Vigo),
Ybakatu (Curitiba, Brazil),
Galería Rafael Ortiz (Seville),
and Galería Pedro Oliveira (Porto, Portugal);
as well as at the Cité de Paris (France).
She has worked on site-specific projects for:
• Manifesta 08
• Open Studio Madrid
• Puntos en común, CCE Guatemala
• Estirar las costuras, Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia, León
• Tirar del Hilo, La Mar de Músicas, Cartagena
For more than a decade, through various mediums such as sculpture, installation, photography, and drawing, Navarro has created works that challenge and confront the mechanisms of power and their institutions—particularly those that have contributed to establishing gender hierarchies. Her practice explores how women are linked to domestic labor and restricted mobility, reflecting on their ongoing struggle against entrenched social conventions.