Sonia Cunliffe, Lima (Peru), 1966. Lives in Lima.
Visual artist, most of her work has been related to photography, archival research, appropriation and enhancement. She studied Visual Arts and Photography at the Escuela Panamericana de Sao Paulo (Brazil), where she was a student of the prestigious photographer Otto Stupakoff. In addition, she has studied Art History at the Tomie Othake Institute (São Paulo) and History of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in Sao Paulo. In addition to having participated in the XIV edition of the Havana Biennial with the piece ‘La Encrucijada del hombre nuevo, una utopia vista en el tiempo’ (2022), in the Cusco Independence Biennial, with the installation ‘La gran Rebelión’ (2021), at the Biennial of Women’s Photography in Mantua, Italy (2020), her most important exhibitions include ‘Documentos Extraviados: niños de Chernóbil en Cuba’ (III Biennial of Asunción, Paraguay), ‘Vigilar y castigar. Fotografías penitenciarias del siglo XIX’ (Rafael Pérez Hernando Gallery, ARCO Independent Exhibition Circuit, Madrid). ‘Un hombre y una mujer” (Blanca Soto Gallery, ARCO Independent Exhibition Circuit, Madrid). ‘Fotografia Indeleble, el Imaginario de Teodoro Bullón’ (Pancho Fierro Municipal Gallery), ‘Yeguas del Apocalypse, Argentinos de París’ (Proa 21 Foundation, Argentina), ‘El Guerrillero Heroico’ (SIART International Art Biennial, Bolivia), and ‘No digas nada de lo que viste ayer noche’ (Headquarters of the Divincri del Callao, Peru). ‘Todos los nombres de Bullón y los tiempos indelebles’ at the Inca Garcilaso Cultural Center (2022).