sonia e barrett

Of German Jamaican Parentage brought up in England, China and Cyprus Sonia Elizabeth Barrett has an international range of cultural influences. A graduate of St Andrews University where she studied Philosophy, Literature and International Relations and the Transart Institute (MFA) she has an unusual grounding in the concepts to which she offers her unique visual response.

Selected Exhibitions and Residencies

2014

MacDowell Residency, Boston USA Nov/Dec
TIAF The Independent Artists Fair (not for profit artists coop) London 15th -18th Oct
"Home" Orange County Centre for Contemporary Art, OCCCA,California, USA
Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association (VAALA) , USA
"The Grass Grows" The Format Gallery in conjunction with ArtLab Gallery, Glenda Cinquegrana Basel, Switzerland.
Selected Artist for "The Format Follow" May 2014, The Format -contemporary culture Gallery, Milan, Italy.
Amy-d arte spazio, "Ghoramara" of Deasung Lee with the Desktop Garden Group Milan, Italy
"The Secret Gardens" in Fabbrica del Vapore, an Artist intervention in Milan Design Week, Italy.

2013

Resistance and Longing, CIAT- Contemporary Institute for Art & Thought, Berlin, Germany.
Emergency Craft Show, Aspex Gallery, Plymouth, England.
London Calling, Factory Art Gallery, 4 Wilkes Street, London,England.
Reloaded, Factory Art Gallery, Momsen Strasse 27, Berlin, Germany.
Solo Show: Otherings sea/home Magazzini dell'Arte Contemporanea, Trapani, Italy.
Nutrimenti Trapani Biennale, Museum of the Sea, Tor de Ligny, Trapani, Italy.
Unlucky, Berlin Collective, Online show, Berlin , Germany.
Precursor, Catalyst Arts Center, Belfast, Ireland.
The Story of the Creative Angel Orensanz Gallery, Long Island City, New York, USA
Selected to complete the “Keywords” project with INIVA and Tate Liverpool , England
Critique leader for European students of Transart Institute

2012
Coiled Potentials Trampoline presents: A Transart Institute MFA Exhibition, Atelierhof, Berlin
Home and Away Caribbean Art project and 4Hr Nap Collective, WOMA ,Grenada, WI
Berlin Collective workshop with John Von Bergen, Berlin
Film collaboration with Rex Films
Video Workshop Art Institute New York with N.Cohen Jan 2012
2011
Nothing to Declare Blanc compound Manila, Philippines
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