Sonia Gomes Lives and works in São Paulo, b. 1948 in Caetanópolis, Brazil

Sonia Gomes weaves her work over the duration of time. The artist chooses materials that bring with them colors, textures, trims, and an indefinable set of memories. Each fabric, article of clothing, and accessory she uses has traveled its path, was dressed, stored, and altered before undergoing a final transformation in her studio.

By combining actions such as brushing, twisting, stretching, tensioning, suspending, and wrapping, Gomes turns sewing into a kind of drawing. Her gestures produce traces and set stages of fabric handling, linking, balancing, and associating pieces in a body that, as if growing, takes shape, establishing relationships with the surrounding space.

Born in Caetanópolis, Minas Gerais, in 1948, Sonia Gomes’ relationship with art stemmed from a permanent need, which led her to produce a wide range of textile creations without having access to a circulation channel. The ambition to recreate the world around her through gestures of care, starting with the intimacy of the body, clothing, and home, inscribed her practice within contemporary art.

Her selected solo exhibitions include Sonia Gomes: sinfonia das cores, Octógono da Pinacoteca de São Paulo, Brazil (2023); O mais profundo é a pele (Skin is the deepest part), Pace Gallery, New York, USA (2022) Lágrima, Mendes Wood DM São Paulo, Brazil (2021); When the sun rises in blue, Blum & Poe Los Angeles, USA (2021); Sonia Gomes & Marina Perez Simão, Pace Gallery, New York, USA (2020); I Rise – I'm a Black Ocean, Leaping and Wide, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany (2019) Sonia Gomes, Mendes Wood DM Brussels, Belgium (2019) Sonia Gomes & Marga Ledora, Mendes Wood DM São Paulo, Brazil (2018); Ainda assim me levanto, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP) / Casa de Vidro, São Paulo, Brazil (2018); A vida renasce, sempre, Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Niterói (MAC Niteró), Brazil (2018).