Bio

Sonia is a Nuyorican visual artist born and raised in Bushwick, Brooklyn in New York City. As a child, she began drawing comics and creating her own worlds as an escape from the adversity present in her household. During high school, she was introduced to Fine Arts and utilized it as another way to pour her innermost feelings onto a two-dimensional format. Her current work primarily consists of realistic still life paintings and drawings which combine symbolism for identity, self-expression, nostalgia, and feelings of melancholy.

She was published (under the name "Chasity Colón") in Arts to Hearts Magazine Issue #4 in November 2023, after being among the 35 entrants selected by an esteemed contemporary artist as the guest curator. She was also selected as a finalist for the AcrylicWorks 10 Competition, landing one of her paintings into The Best of Acrylic magazine, a special issue of Artists Magazine published in September 2023. Sonia is currently a Young Artist Affiliate of Viridian Artists Inc, an artist-owned contemporary art gallery located in the Chelsea region of Manhattan. During the summer of 2021, she was an artist in residence at the Carrie Able Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She is a graduate of the BFA Illustration program at Parsons School of Design. Outside of her usual visual arts projects, she enjoys textile arts, reading, singing, volunteering, and has a major interest in parkour and martial arts.