Sonia Almeida

Sonia Almeida was born in Lisbon, Portugal. Currently lives in Boston and teaches at Brandeis University since 2014. Her courses are in Printmaking, Artists' Books and Fabric Arts Her work is an investigation into the ways that language is learned, shared and adapted in processes of fragmentation and multiplicity. She is interested in how it relates to questions of agency and power. Almeida’s artworks explore disparate yet connected visual languages brought together within a single work. The expressiveness of the mark, image creation, sequence and duration have guided her to combine different ways of painting and more sculptural pieces using hinges or sliding mechanisms. Her paintings and books expresses a thorough reflection on the limits, the hierarchized rules, and the directives set by the historical codes of painting.