Sonia Bermúdez

Sonia Bermudez lives immersed in a very personal universe, when referring to her artistic creation, narrating a pictorial language filled with a very special vision of the cosmos of life, mixing fantasy and magic, thus so avoiding fleeting fashionable influences. These traits and references to this fantastical world are deeply rooted, not only in her work, whether in her paintings, textile art or murals embedded with neon lights that give a soft almost translucent sheen and dreamy textures to her compositions, but also within her everyday way of living and thinking.
Different universes inhabit her creations, from subaquatic worlds where everything is possible, to innocent children’s games, to the worlds of aromas and sublime essences. A journey to an imaginary submarine environment with undefined shapes, only outlines, a pathway to innocence, illusion and hope, or a passageway to a meditative state, to kundalini, the feminine energy that through the body’s points of physical or spiritual energy lead to experience enlightenment.
In her latest body of work allusions to these natural phenomenon and marvels are present, mother earth, moon, water, realities and dreams that will create a new world. Love is incredibly eminent throughout her creations as is Earth’s natural satellite, the Moon.
Art, murals and neon installations, textile compositions this is the work she has created during the last years of her artistic evolution, developing a pictorial expression, filled with transparencies and veiling, that has become her signature language.
In this latest body of work the artist recuperates different pieces of fabrics of cotton tarlatan, organza and silks, that she mixes with rice paper, foam, plastic grids and propylene that she laser cuts into geometric shapes.
Her fascination for the different fabrics comes from her childhood days when she used to observe her mother design beautiful couture clothes for Lima’s high society women during the 60’s through to the 90’s. The use of modern materials such as plastic grids, flex and foam she has integrated into her artwork in these last years, comes from a desire to recuperate and upcycle and give these mediums a second life.
Her oeuvre, off the beaten track, is unclassifiable, many times impossible to capture. For a long time now, she has chosen to follow an unknown path leading up to the unfamiliar, always moving away from the rigid and purely academic.

“SON TEMPERAMENT GENEREUX GENERE UNE ACTIVITE GRAPHIQUE PERMANENTE, QUI OSE PRENDRE DES RISQUES ET POSSEDE DES DONS DE COLORISTE D’UNE CAPACITE EXCEPCIONNELLE “
MONTSÉ CAMPRUBI

Sonia Bermúdez studied for 4 years at the famous house-workshop of Cristina Galvez, a founding figure of modern sculpture in Peru (Lima 1916 - 1982), who taught many students who are now renowned artists.

She continues her training with a course in watercolor technique and water technique with the Peruvian artist Juan Pastorelli, painter, engraver and self-taught water colourist, author of the great and famous mural of the University of Lima.

A few years later, Sonia Bermúdez moved permanently to Barcelona and opened her own painting and decoration workshop.

Sonia Bermudez began exhibiting at Gallery 715 in Lima in 1981.

From 1982 onwards, a series of solo exhibitions followed in Spain, France, the USA and Latin America. In 1986 she began her activity as a muralist, creating the workshop of Crisalida

During a period of 7 years from 2000, 2004 to 2008 she carried out a series of 3 mural projects at the Casa Batlló in Barcelona.

She also works in different public spaces, hotels, restaurants, and private homes around the world, in Spain, France, Belgium, Germany, Poland and the USA.

Individual exhibitions

1981 GALERIA 715, LIMA, PERU
1982 SALA BELTRAN, BARCELONA, SPAIN
1982 MAISON DE L’AMERIQUE LATINE, PARIS, FRANCE
1987 SALA SAVOY, BARCELONA, SPAIN
1989 SALA D’EXPOSICIONS LA CAIXA, BADALONA, SPAIN
1990 PISCOLABIS, BARCELONA, SPAIN
1990 ESPAI XIMENA GODOY, BARCELONA, SPAIN
1991JAVA ART GALLERY, LOS ANGELES, USA
1991 GALERIA CYPRUS, SANT FELIU DE BOADA, GIRONA, SPAIN
1992 GALERIA LE CENT, PARIS, FRANCE
1993 GALERIA LIBERTADORES, LIMA, PERU
1993 SALA MACAO “DESDE EL INTERIOR” BARCELONA, SPAIN
1994 GALERIA L’ESCALE, ESPACE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN, BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
1996 SALA SENACHERIBO, BARCELONA, SPAIN
1999 GALERIA PRINCIPAL MONTCADA, “MANADAS”, EL AMOR DEBAJO DEL AGUA, BARCELONA, SPAIN
2000 FABIO PARIS ART GALLERY, “MI AMA NON MI AMA” BRESCIA, ITALY
2000 CARMEN TORRALLARDONA GALERIA D’ART, ANDORRA LA VELLA, PRINCIPALITY OF ANDORRA
2002 GALERIA ALICIA VENTURA “VA LLEGANDO LA HORA”, BARCELONA, SPAIN
2005 CARMEN TORRALLARDONA GALERIA D’ART, “SABER, SABOR A OLOR”, ANDORRA LA VELLA, PRINCIPALITY OF ANDORRA
2006 GALERIA KNUD HARTUNG, MUNICH, GERMANY
2007 GALERIA KNUD HARTUNG, MUNICH, GERMANY
2014 KNUD HARTUNG, MUNICH, GERMANY
2014 “LA REGION MAS TRANSPARENTE DEL ARTE”, MUSEO DE OSMA, ESCRIT ALFREDO BRYCE ECHENIQUE

Collective exhibitions

1981 GALERIA 715, LIMA, PERU
1981 GALERIA BORCAS, LIMA, PERU
1982 EXPOSICIO AMNISTIA INTERNACIONAL, MADRID, SPAIN
1983 ESPACE LATINO- AMERICAIN, PARIS, FRANCE
1983 XXII PREMI INTERNACIONAL, FUNDACIO MIRO, BARCELONA, SPAIN
1986 I BIENNAL, PAMPLONA, SPAIN
1986 CONCURS INTERNACIONAL, BEGUR, SPAIN
1986 IL.LUSTRACIÓ DEL LLIBRE “GOIG” DE ALFREDO BRYCE ECHENIQUE
1988 CALIGRAFIA XINA, DANCES D’ARREU DEL MON, BARCELONA, SPAIN
1990 ESPACIO XIMENA GODOY, BARCELONA, SPAIN
1991JAVA ART GALLERY, LOS ANGELES, EEUU
1991 CYPRUS ART, GIRONA, SPAIN
1996 HOMMAGE AUX 20 ARTISTES DE L’ESCALE, BRUXELLES, BELGIUM
1999 COL.LECTIVA ESPAI Y FORMA, BARCELONA, SPAIN
1999 NEW ART, BARCELONA, SPAIN
2000 GALERIA PRINCIPAL MONTCADA, NEW ART 2000, BARCELONA, SPAIN
2000 GALERIA MORIARTY, ARCO 2000, MADRID, SPAIN
2001 CARMEN TORRALLARDONA GALERIA D’ART, ANDORRA LA VELLA, PRINCIPALITY OF ANDORRA
2003 “EROTISMES” GALERIA ANTONIO DE BARNOLA, BARCELONA, SPAIN
2005 IL.LUSTRACIÓ DEL LLIBRE “MUJERES”, FUNDACIO ONCE, 10 IL.LUSTRACIONS DE 10 ESCRIPTORS,PROLEG DEL PRESIDENT RODRIGUEZ ZAPATERO
2009 COL.LECTIVA DE MUNICH, GERMANY
2009 ORPHANAGE AFRICA, “CREANDO FUTUROS” SEDE DEL FAD, BARCELONA, SPAIN
2010 PARTICIPA AL “INCA BALL AUCTION”, AL ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, LONDON, ENGLAND
2011 LA CASA DELS XUCLIS, BARCELONA, SPAIN
2012 MUNICH CREATIVE BUSINESS WEEK, GERMANY