Artist Biograpy
Of German Jamaican Parentage brought up in England, China and Cyprus Sonia Elizabeth Barrett has an international range of cultural influences. Exhibited at the Black Art Expo and a contributor to the open space project at the Heinrich Böll Institute, she is also responsible for an annual installation/performance piece in Berlin on the subject of walls and cultural division. A graduate of St Andrews University where she studied Philosophy, Literature and International Relations she has an unusual grounding in the concepts to which she offers her unique visual response.
Selected Shows, Exhibitions and publicatioins
Expo 2000, “Three British Artists” Hannover
Roots Bar Berlin 2004, "What went before"
Robert Miller Gallery, NY 2005 "postcards from the edge"
The International Black Art Expo 2007, 2008 Philadelphia
"Paint" Magazine Philidelphia, 2008
The Kalahari Building, Harlem New York 2008
Black Fine Arts Fair, 2008, 2009 New York
Summer Residency Tanzfabrik Berlin, Transart Institute 2009
Work featured "Black History 365" Journal, 2009.
Open Space Projekt: Zwichenraum für Kunst & Migration,
Heinrich Böll Institute, Berlin Germany 2010.
Winter Residency Sideshow Gallery New York, Transart Institute 2010
Group Residency Dia Beacon New York 2010
City Hall, group exhibition Philadelphia 2010
Art in the Open, Philadelphia 2010
Rosenwald Wolf Gallery Philadelphia 2010
Work featured "Interkultur" Newspaper Berlin Jul/Aug 2010
LACDA Los Angeles Center for Digital Art,LA 2010
NGBK, Berlin Germany
Awards and recognition
Bursary to attend the Royal St. Catherine’s Conference of Commonwealth Arts Windsor England 1989
Scholarship for MFA Arts program at the Transart Institute Krems Austria 2009
Resume
I am a self taught Artist.I have recently received funding to start a Masters Programme in Visual Arts. Before working as a visual artist I worked with black opera companies, dance companies, and cinema festivals that time afforded me a deep and exciting view into urban cultural creation by ethnic minorities in London. I am now living and working in Germany.
Education and Related Experience
Degree English Literature St Andrews University Scotland
Dissertation Poetry and Art in Caribbean Culture
