Gabriel Sosa is a Cuban-American artist, linguist, educator and arts administrator. He draws from legal proceedings, personal archives, and contemporary visual culture to explore the mutability of language, the imperfection of memory, and the misinterpretation of both. Raised in Miami and now based in Boston, Gabriel is a lecturer at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and the Deputy Director of Essex Art Center in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
Selected Projects and Exhibitions
2022 No Vehicles In The Park, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
2022 Today’s Specials, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA
2021 Exposed, The Current, Stowe, VT
2021 The Medium is the Message, VSOP Projects, Greenport, NY
2021 BodyMonopolizingPoliticking, Brookline Arts Center, Brookline, MA
2021 Message Received, Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Boston, MA
2020 - 2021 No es fácil/It ain’t easy, public art installation with Now + There
2020 Proyecciones para el sereno, Museo La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia
2020 Pecerovid-19, a online exhibition by Aeropuerto Laboratorio
2020 Creating in Covid, an online exhibition curated by Rachel Kay
2019 Within Interdependence, YoungArts Foundation, Miami, FL
2019 ¿Para llevar o para tomar aquí? O, Miami Poetry Festival, Miami, FL
2019 Let me explain to you what this means, Tufts University Art Galleries, Boston and Medford, MA*
2018 Cosmik Debris, VSOP Projects, Greenport, NY
2018 El Acercamiento/The Approach, Centro Cultural Español, Miami, FL
2017 Crossing Borders, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
2017 Please interrupt if you don't understand, A R E A Gallery, Cambridge, MA*
2017 DisPlaced, 4th SUR Biennial, Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA
2017 I Come From Where the Palm Tree Grows, LATLab, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Koan, iArtColony, Rockport, MA
2017 El Acercamiento/The Approach, La Fábrica de Arte Cubano, Havana, Cuba
2017 Incarcerated, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
2016 Yud Video Project, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
2016 Performing the Home, Nave Gallery Annex, Somerville, MA
2016 Boston Young Contemporaries, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
2016 El Acercamiento/The Approach, Plaza de la Raza, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Drawing Connections, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2016 SKIN, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015 The Independent Artist Fair, London, UK
2015 Embracing Differences: Mending the Isms and Schisms, The Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA
2015 Now You See Me: Best of the Northeast MFA Student Show, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
2015 Emerging Latin Artists, La Galería at Villa Victoria, Boston, MA
2014 South Asia Exchange, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2012 Youngblood: Homecoming, ArtSeen Gallery, Miami, FL
* indicates a solo exhibition
Residencies and Fellowships
2021 Materia Abierta, Mexico City, Mexico
2021 Art & Law Program, New York, NY
2021 Urbano Project, Boston, MA
2020 Now + There Accelerator Program, Boston, MA
2019 Lugar a dudas, Cali, Colombia
2018 Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
2017 Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA
2017 Walter Feldman Fellow, Arts and Business Council of Greater Boston, Boston, MA
2016 Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
Selected Lectures, Presentations and Workshops
2021 Urbano Project, Boston, MA
2020 Boston College, Newton, MA
2019 Lugar a dudas, Cali, Colombia
2019 SMFA at Tufts University, Boston, MA
2018 East Boston Public Library, Boston, MA
2018 Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
2017 Foley and Hoag, LLP, Boston, MA
2017 A R E A Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2016 Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
2015 Mills Gallery at Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
2011 Casa de las Américas, Havana, Cuba
Curatorial Projects
2022 The Architecture of Deafness, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
2021 Shaping Things, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA
2020 Performance Section, Area Code Art Fair
2019 Crossing the Line, Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA
2017 Three Acts For(giving), Haley House, Roxbury, MA
2017 Best of the Northeast MFA Student Show, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
2017 Re.Volt.Ing, The Distillery Gallery, South Boston, MA
2016 Stark Naked: Bodies, Objects, and the Futility of Desire, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
2016 Drawing Connections, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2015 Gallery on the Way, Davis Square, Somerville, MA
2015 Re Entry, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Education
2016 M.F.A., School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University
2007-08 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
2007 B.A., Boston University
2003 Diploma, New World School of the Arts, Miami