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Has been awarded an IIE Artist Protection Fund Fellowship and is in residence at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is a researcher, painter, muralist, and performer focusing on Identities, nomadism, and diversity. She serves as Director and teacher of the digital school of free arts Identidades Nómadas. Sofia received a degree in painting from the Universidad Nacional y Experimental de las Artes (UNEARTES); a diploma in Art Applied to Society at Uberbau-House São Paulo, Brazil; and an IIE Artist Protection Fund of New York 2024-2025 grant.

A researcher who reflects on human diversity, recognizes identity as a dialogic and intersubjective construction between the individual and the collective, Sofia is a cultural activist who is committed to art as a place of political expression. She is currently researching the proposal «Crossing to the Dreams (a home in transit and a ritual of nomadic identities)» creative process in the art studio at Siebel Center for Design.

Sofia Saavedra’s work has been exhibited at the 1st and 2nd International Painting Exhibition in Tijuana, Baja California, CECUT, Mexico 2021-2022 / 2024-2025. She has exhibited in Mexico, Argentina, Spain, France, Venezuela. Her work La Linea Fronteriza (The Border Line) was awarded an honorable mention in the Tijuana Triennial, 1st International Pictorial Baja California, CECUT, Mexico 2021; she was also selected for the 2nd