María Sosa (b. 1985, MX) graduated from the Universidad Michoacán de San Nicolás de Hidalgo. Sosa’s practice stems from her research about our shared colonial past and how it constitutes contemporary social dynamics as an epistemicide of prehispanic worlds, racism, sexism and the invisibility of multiple non-westerner’s ways of life in the American continent. Sosa’s work is nourished by her research of prehispanic art, anthropology, the methodology of Ecología de Saberes and the exploration of production techniques of ritual prehispanic and contemporary objects.
María Sosa’s solo exhibitions include El otro lado de uno mismo at the Llano Gallery in Mexico City (MX), 2022; Centro Cultural La Ibérica Arte UNAM, Mérida, Yucatán (MX), 2022; Tepalcates de Sueños (with RojoNegro) in Mexico City (MX), 2022; Solo Show Zurich, ARTEBA, Buenos Aires (ARG), 2019; and El enemigo de adentro, el enemigo de afuera at Parque Galería, Mexico City (MX), 2019.
Sosa has been a participant in the CCA Andratx’s Artist-in-Residence Program (2023) in Mallorca (ES). Sosa’s selected international group exhibitions include Indigenous Histories at Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP), São Paulo (BR), 2023; Las estrellas me iluminan al revés at No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam (NL), 2023; Deep Listening at the Laboratorio de Arte Alameda, Mexico City (MX), 2021–2022; Root and Rhizome at Casa de México Foundation, Madrid (ES), 2021; The Brain Mixologists at A Tale of A Tub, Amsterdam (NL), 2021; Ch'xi: One that is two at Arewá, Madrid (ES), 2021; Amexica at the Servais Family Collection, Brussels (BE), 2020; La Désse Verte at Lasécu Artothèque, Lille (FR), 2019.
María Sosa. Image courtesy of No Man’s Art Gallery. Education
2018 Graduate in Visual Arts from the Michoacan University of San Nicolás de Hidalgo Seminar Women’s Struggle in the South, CLACSO Latin American Congress of Social Sciences
2018 Seminar Justice among Knowledge, CLACSO
2018 Seminar Decolonial Aesthetics from the South, CLACSO
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Di tu nombre tres veces, Plataforma, Guadalajara, MX
2024 ¿Qué has hecho con nuestro cuerpo que era morada de los dioses?, Museo Morelense de Arte Contemporáneo Juan Soriano, Cuernavaca, MX
2024 Cape Town Art Fair, solo with No Man ’ s Art Gallery, Cape Town, SA
2022 El otro lado de uno mismo, galería Llano, CDMX, MX
2022 Rituales para abrir la salida del mal aire, Centro Cultural La Ibérica, Arte UNAM, CDMX, MX
2021 Performance El encuentro de los tepalcates with Noé Martíez at Swiss Insitute NY, EUA
2020 The monsters didn ’t live here, online exhibition Centro Cultural de México en Belize, Belize, BE
2019 Volvi a ver animales en la noche, Fundación Alumnos 47, CDMX, MX
2019 El enemigo de adentro / El enemigo de afuera, PARQUE Galería, CDMX, MX
2019 El enemigo de adentro / El enemigo de afuera, ARTEBA, Buenos Aires, AR
2019 El pasado es un animal grotesco; en sus ojos podemos ver lo completamente equivocados que estamos, Pantalla Blanca, CDMX, MX
Group Exhibitions
2025 Fantastic Creatures, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo, NL
2024 Paper Bienale, Museum Rijswijk, NL
2023 Las estrellas me iluminan al revés, No Man ’ s Art Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2022 Kolapse, imaginar desde el colapso, galería Machete, CDMX, MX
2022 The Beyond, Baseagency, Los Angeles, USA
2021 Escucha Profunda, poéticas hacia el mundo al revés, Laboratorio de Arte Alameda, CDMX, MX
2021 Raíz y Rizoma, Fundación de Casa México en España, Madrid, SP
2021 The Brain Mixologists, Tale of a Tube, Amsterdam, NL
2021 Ch’ xi: uno que son dos, Arewá, Madrid, SP
2020 Amexica, Servais Family Collection, Brussels, BE
2020 Abusos de las formas, Carrillo Gil Museum, MX
2020 Sala de Espera, online exhibition, Amparo Museo, Puebla, MX La Déesse Verte, lille3000, Lille, FR
2019 Eldorado, Lasécu Artothèque, Lille, FR
2019 Salón ACME #7, CDMX, MX
2019 ARCOmadrid, Madrid, SP
2019 Screening of La Palabra de la Cueva, at International
2018 Crossroads Festival, Oklahoma, USA
2018 Screening of La Palabra de la Cueva, Museo Nacional de Antropología, CDMX, MX
2018 Fifty Years, and What Has Changed?,Hacer cosas con palabras (Doing Things With Words Filmfront, Chicago, USA
2018 La Palabra de la Cueva, Casa Chihuahua, Chihuahua,MX
2018 Ánimecheri KéjtsÏtakua, Buena Park, California, USA
2018 Transcavations, MAX Museum of Archeology of Xalapa,
2018 Ficción y tiempo, Centro Cultural Universitario de Tlateloco, CDMX, MX
2017 Creación en movimiento, Centro de las Artes de San Luis Potosí, S.L.P., MX
2017 ¿Para Qué?, PARQUE Galería, CDMX, MX
2017 I saw animals again at night, Fundación Alumnos 47, CDMX, MX
Residencies
2023 CCA-Andraxt, Andraxt, Mallorca, SP
2020 Clarice Oliveira Tavares residency, Swiss Institute, NY, USA
Awards/Mentions
2017 Winner of Ojo and Hermanos Alva Award for Best Short Film, Michoacan Selection, XV
2017 Morelia International Film Festival, with “the word of the cave ” , Morelia, MX
2017 Official Selection XV Morelia International Film Festival, Morelia, MX
2016 FONCA Young Creators Scholarship (2016-17)
2014 Honorable mention XI FEMSA Biennial, MX
Publications
2022 Das Museum Sem Nenhum Caráter, Resisting the universal
2020 Notes for a Horizontality: Toward the Possibility of Becoming Together as an Assemblage, Phelps Cisneros Collection, VE
2020 Venice Internationatiol Performance Arte Week, Fragile
2017 Body-Material Body III, Vestandpage press
2017 Contemporary Manifests, Taurus Editorial
It has been published about her joint work with the artist Noé Martínez in the ARC magazine of the Royal College of Art, by Stella Botai, London 2012 Her joint work with the artists Noé Martínez and Gabriel Cázares has been published in the MUAC Dossier “Yo sé que tu padre no entiende mi lenguaje modelno