About

Sofía Tabío is a Puerto Rican Architect/Artist born from Cuban parents whose work is influenced by the realities that define Latin American women in today’s society. The three dimensionality and design of her art was cultivated by her father, an architect and her grandmother Rita Longa, a renowned Cuban sculptress.

Sofia received an MA in Architecture from Tulane University in New Orleans. Understanding the need to explore the world, Sofia ventured to London, England to attend the Architectural Association her junior year. Taking her experience in Europe as well as her upbringing in a Latin country she focused her thesis subject to merging her two passions, Architecture and Culture: “Cultural Identity in Architecture”. Upon completing her studies she moved to Barcelona, Spain where the architectural grandiose inspired her later work returning to Puerto Rico to work alongside her father designing private housing, shopping malls and office buildings. Sofia married and moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina where she discovered art as a means for her to express the realities of a Latino-American woman in an international context. From Argentina, Sofia moved to Mexico City where the eclectic scenery inspired her to reinvent her career as an educator and received a Master’s Degree in International Education focusing on the use of art as a tool for cognitive and intellectual development in the classroom.

During her artistic career, beginning in 1993, Sofia’s work has been presented in various exhibitions. Her organic, figurative and fragmented artwork is a recollection of her life and cultural backgrounds where color, line, plane and volume are combined to create a unique voice. 

“My artwork aims to create an exploration of the cultural realities of a Latino-American woman using an underlying abstract structure in which the organization of space- much as an Architect in his use of line, plane and volume- dissolves the viewer into the space presented becoming an involved participant of the figurative abstract world at sight.”