Sofia Ibarguengoitia

Sofía Ibargüengoitia (Mexico City, 1984) is a visual artist trained in theater at the National School of Theater Arts (INBA), Architecture at UNAM, and holds a Master's Degree in Visual Arts from the same university. Her practice is rooted in painting and expands from there: into object, body, space and theater — territories she treats not as additions but as part of a single language.

She has exhibited in Mexico City, New York, Milan and Barcelona, at venues including the Usagi Gallery, the National Museum of Art and the Museu Europeu d'Art Modern (MEAM).

In 2019 and 2021 she received the Certificate of Artistic Achievement from the Luxemburg Art Prize.

In 2019 she presented "The Incomplete Colors of Mexico" at the Sebastián Foundation in Mexico City, a solo exhibition of paintings on wooden canvases that transform into chairs — works that as objects receive you and as canvases reflect you. That same year she created

"Black Sheep", a large-format piece (5×3 meters) for the Solitude Collection of the Sebastián Foundation, a collection of nearly sixty works brought together by the Mexican sculptor Sebastián.

Her most recent solo exhibition, "Don't Follow Me, I Am Also Lost" (2025), is perhaps the clearest synthesis of that jour...

2002-2003 Degree in Acting (Unfinished)
National School of Theater Arts, National Institute of Fine Arts. México

2004-2010 Degree in Architecture.
Faculty of Architecture , National Autonomous University of Mexico

2016 Corso di Alta Formazione “Hotel Design Solutions”
Poli.Design, Consorzio del Politecnico di Milano

2020-2022 Master’s Degree in Visual Arts.
Faculty of Arts and Design, National Autonomous University of Mexico

UPCOMING

2027- Selected artist for the XVI FLORENCE BIENNALE that will be held in October 2027.

2027 - BADA Mexico

PAST

2026 - Awarded the INTERNATIONAL PRIZE REMBRANDT by the FONDAZIONE EFFETTO ARTE in Barcelona, Spain.

2026 - Collective Exhibition "BARCELONA: 1001 WINDOWS" at MUSEU EUROPEU D'ART MODERN at Barcelona, Spain.

2026- Collective Exhibition “MEAM HALL 7” at MUSEU EUROPEU D’ART MODERN at Barcelona, Spain. Exhibition of small format works (20x20 cm).

2025 – Individual Exhibition “DON’T FOLLOW ME, I AM ALSO LOST” At the Circulo Teatral in Mexico City. Pictorial-theatrical experiment that intersperses the writing of a play with the pictorial production of 18 works and a sculptural installation, resulting in a performance where the actors interact with the paintings through movement, dialogues, lights and music.

2021- Certificate of Artistic Achievement Luxemburg Art Prize 2021 Edition.

2020- Collective Exhibition NONAME. At the National Museum of Art in Mexico City.

2019- Certificate of Artistic Achievement Luxemburg Art Prize 2019 Edition

2019- Creation of the work in Large Format (5x3 meters) “BLACK SHEEPS” for the SOLITUDE COLLECTION at the Sebastian Foundation in Mexico City. This collection is formed by appr...