Sonia Benitez

Sònia Benitez, artist from Barcelona, creator of sculptures from different materials and formats. She has a degree in Fine Arts, specialized in working stone and ceramics, natural materials, which are very important elements in her work, where she looks for the connection with nature.

She works on the human figure, especially the female one is the most present, figurative pieces, quiet and immobile, looking for the reflection of an accelerated and constant world, creating calm moments of pause and reflection. Sculpture allows her to create this reflection, her own personal expression of these sensations or feelings of that specific moment, seeking for the viewer to observe and create its own interpretations. She likes to work in a spontaneous way mud and stone creating unique pieces of art. She is currently working on a small format collection mixing iron and ceramics, looking for the contrast of the two materials.


In 2007 she finished her Belles Arts studies at the University of Barcelona, specializing in sculpture and she was also granted a one semester scholarship at Michigan University where she worked on a project in ceramics. After 2008 she combined her teaching career with her personal sculptural work, enrol...

2024

- Finalist 3r Toolip International Art Contest. Budapest
- Collective exhibition Guerra i Pau. Convent Sant Pau. Barcelona
- Collective exhibition Ciclamen Galería Léucade. Múrcia

2023

- Collective exhibition and art supermarket Miimspais. Barcelona Art exhibition, Les Muses de la Escala Girona
- Participation in the Art Route of Castelló d’Empúries. Catalunya
- Participation in the initiative, “Fem del plàstic una obra d’art” for the benefit of the Associació Amics de les Illes Formigues.
- Selected International Award, Sant Jordi, Fundació Perelló.
- Collective exhibition grup Abartium. Vic

2022

- Selected in the Pere Jou Sculpture competition in Sitges.
- Virtual exhibition Mombo Gallery.
- Collective exhibition Galeria Bcmartgallery. Barcelona.
- Collective exhibition Galeria Ra Del Rey. Madrid.

2011

Finalist Contest Beca Güell. Barcelona. Sculpture

2010/19

- Winner of the competition for the award given in the “Paraules -d’Icària” by Edicions Saragossa. Barcelona

2009

- Exhibition curator Crits”. Barcelona.
- Exhibition “El cos humà i l’art”. Barcelona.
- Selected to exhibit a work. Reial Cercle Artístic Sant Lluc. Barcelona.

2008

- Exhibition “In- corpore”. Barcelona.

2007

-Selected in the Pere Jou Award. ...