Sonia Guggisberg

ISEA Bio(s) Available:

• ISEA2020

  Sonia Guggisberg holds a Phd in Visual Arts, São Paulo University, Brasil (Capes Scholarship), Ph.D. in Communication and Semiotics, from the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo PUC-SP, (FAPESP Scholarship), Master of Arts, through the State University of Campinas (Capes Scholarship). Acts as an artist, videomaker and researcher, participating in group and solo exhibitions, lectures and workshops since the 1990s. She has experience in site-specific and video installation and, today develops studies in videographic language for documentary, as a research object. She has already held 20 solo exhibitions and, in addition to Brazil, her works have already been shown in New York, in some cities in Germany, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Spain and France. She has works in the collection of the Museum Lasar Segal, Museum of Contemporary Art of SP, SESC, Pinacoteca, Museum of the City of São Paulo and Figueiredo Ferraz Institute among others. In 2015 the artist won the Brazil Photography Award 2014 (Porto Seguro Award): Essays and in 2017 the General Prize, Independent Production, MobilFilm. Centro Cultural Unibes, São Paulo, SP. She develops and coordinates the collective project Ecosystems. Lives and works in São Paulo.

Website:

• http://www.soniaguggisberg.com/

Last Known Location:

• São Paulo, Brazil