Sonia Navarro

Sonia Navarro was born in 1975, Puetro Lumbreras, Spain. She currently lives and works in Madrid, Spain. She studied at the Escuela de Arte y Superior de Diseño Art School in Murcia. Her work explores the intersections of gender, power structures, and materiality.

Navarro learned to sew from the elder women in her family, she carries forward a generational tradition, transforming historically feminized craft techniques into a powerful artistic language. Engaging with textiles, embroidery, and sculptural forms, she constructs intricate visual narratives that reflect on the historical and social roles of women. Through meticulously stitched leathers and textiles, woven structures, and architectural compositions, she subverts craft-based techniques, often dismissed as domestic or decorative, turning them into powerful artistic messages, stories. 

Navarro’s work has earned her several prestigious awards, including the Spanish Royal Academy Fellowship in Rome and the Premio BMW Art Award in 2023 for her Redes 1 series. Her artworks are held in notable collections, such as the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Spanish Ministry of Culture, the University of Granada and the Collección SOLO.