Sofía Córdova (she/her) was born in 1985 in Carolina, Puerto Rico and is currently based in Oakland, California. Córdova makes work that considers sci-fi as alternative history, dance music's liberatory dimensions, colonial contamination, climate change and migration, and most recently, revolution - historical and imagined - within the matrix of class, gender, race, late capitalism and its technologies. The artist works in performance, video, sound, music, installation, photography, and sometimes taxidermy.

Córdova’s work has been exhibited and performed internationally at The Whitney Museum of American Art, Tufts University Galleries, SFMOMA, Arizona State University Museum, Berkeley Art Museum, Vincent Price Museum, Wattis Institute, YBCA, Art Hub (Shanghai) and MEWO Kunsthalle (Germany). The same is part of Pier 24’s and The Kadist’s permanent collections. She has recently participated in residencies at Eyebeam, New York, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, Mills College Museum, Oakland, and the ASU Museum, Phoenix and composed and choreographed performances for the SF Arts Commission, Merce Cunningham Trust and Soundwave Biennial. She is a recipient of a Creative Work Fund and has been the subject of a First Look feature in Art in America. Her work was recently featured in Aperture Magazine and formed part of the exhibition no existe un mundo posthuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

SEE(d) Creative Network visited Córdova’s Oakland-based studio and received a delightful behind-the-scenes look into her timely and varied working processes on Saturday, September 9, 2023.