Gabriel Sosa is a Cuban-American artist, educator, and cultural worker. 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. His work has been shown at the Boston Public Art Triennial; Behind VA Shadows, Cambridge; Providence College Art Galleries; Fitchburg Art Museum; The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; Fábrica de Arte Cubano, Havana, Cuba; Tufts University Art Galleries; A R E A, Boston; O, Miami Poetry Festival; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, and Museo La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia.
He received the Boston Artadia Award, and has participated in residencies at Lugar a dudas, The Art & Law Program, Materia Abierta, Urbano Project, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Mass MoCA, and Santa Fe Art Institute. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Boston Art Review, The Boston Globe, Frieze Magazine, and WBUR. Gabriel spent over a decade as an interpreter in the Massachusetts Trial Court, and presented on interpreting practices at East Boston Public Library, Committee for Public Counsel Services, and La Casa de las Américas in Havana, Cuba. He has consulted on bilingual initiatives with ICA/Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Harvard Art Museums.
He currently sits on the Board of Directors at Boston Art Review and the Board of Advisors at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. As part of the 2025 Boston Public Art Triennial, Gabriel launched ñ press, a community print studio and publishing platform centered on connection, activism, and shared learning. ñ press continues to operate in East Boston at Maverick Landing Community Services.
Gabriel teaches at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and serves as Deputy Director of Essex Art Center in Lawrence, Massachusetts.