Sofia Ruiz Ugalde

Name: Sofa Ruiz-UgaldeAddress : San Lorenzo de Flores , Heredia , Date of birth : February 26th, 1982Citizenship : Costa RicanBorn on 1982, in San Jos, Costa Rica.At the age of 16 she initiates in the art , for two years she studied Chemical Engineering and Philosophy at the University of Costa Rica . In 2000 she enter the University of Costa Rica's Shcool of Fine Arts, mayoring Painting and Printmaking. In 2007 she travels to Mexico to participate at the first drawing bienal , Rafael Cauduro, that same year she travels to Cuba to participate of the workshop , multiple transparency , she returns to Costa Rica and obtains the first prize at Valoarte Group show of latinamerican art , in 2008 she was the artist in residence at the Experimental Printmaking Institute at Easton Pa USA . Her art work is about the study of the individual identity from the familiar surroundings in a profound and sarcastic way, from which autobiographical elements emerge. The images suggest that families are not so pretty or perfect as they seem but, they are fundamental in the constitution of the individual identity. The speech in my work, appeals to old photos of family groups but it adds a quota of irony , because the characters express ...

Awards (Premios)
Winner of Ora Award 2012 Italy
Winner of Ancora Award 2011 CR
2nd place MYARTSPACE Art Scholarship 2009 Graduate winner, USA
First place II Biennial of Painting and sculpture ICE 2009 CR
Winner of Valoarte 2007, Latin American art, V. Edition 2007.



Awards (Premios)
Winner of Ora Award 2012 Italy
Winner of Ancora Award 2011 CR
2nd place MYARTSPACE Art Scholarship 2009 Graduate winner, USA
First place II Biennial of Painting and sculpture ICE 2009 CR
Winner of Valoarte 2007, Latin American art, V. Edition 2007.

Art Shows ( Exhibiciones)
2013 Galeria Giamaart , Benevento , Italia
2013 11th World Cultural Art Symposium, The Mosan Art Museum, south Korea.
2013 I am the others, Curated by Maria Jose Monge, Central Bank Museums, San Jose CR
2013 Young Curators, Nouvelles Vagues, Palais de Tokio, Paris, France
2012 Printmaking in Costa Rica, Ayuntamiento de Alcorcón, Madrid, Spain
2011 MIA Miami International Art Fair
2011Casino 2011 Gallery Klaus Stainmetz
2010 Art fair NEXT Chicago
2010 Patrajdas Contemporary Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
2010 6-th the International Triennal of Graphical Art of Bitola in the Republic of Macedonia. In the N.I Institute and museum - Bitola.
2010 IDEARTE auction of Latin-American art Honduras
2009 Gallery Lazaro, " Rojo" July 2009. SJ, CR
2009 The Young Stamp, Cuba Havana.
2009 II Biennial of Painting and Sculpture ICE, CR
2008-2007 Valoarte, Collective of Latin American Art,V& VI Th. Edition
2007 Biennial de Las Américas: Rafael Cauduro" Tijuana,Mexico.
2009 Gallery Kandinsky, San Jose, CR, " The Garden of the Inconscious,"
2008 William Center Art Gallery & Art Collections, Experimental Printmaking Institute, USA.
2008 Cocktails & Collecting “Allentown Art Museum, the USA, PA, No...