Upcoming Solo Show
Conversation, Part 1: Before the Degradation
March 23 - April 4th, 2026
Goldmark Cultural Center, Ruth Andres GalleryDallas, TX
Exhibition Statement:
“Convesation, Part 1: Before the Degradation,” is the beginning of a body of work addressing the erasure of women’s body autonomy through active and systemic silencing. The work depicts women I know personally using their hands to art, and places their resilience in the context of European Iron Age and its lasting effects on the American now.
Artist’s Self-Portrait
ABOUT
Sophia del Rio born in 1982 in Austin, TX, watched the idealistic hippie generation of her parents sell-out and trade-in civil rights for profit. She set out like many people in her generation to attend an enormous amount of college, achieving a Masters Degree in Neuroscience. However the 2008 financial crash turned the job market into a hollow landscape of unpaid internships, crippling gig-economy work or corporate contract work. The second blow was yet to come and resulted from the 2020 pandemic sending her generation into a spiral uncertainty. The job security her parents had enjoyed was gone.
Sophia's art work is a social practice focused on her generation's precarious future, and attempts to address her generation's need for its own artistic documentation of experience in lasting, slow media, like painting and ceramics. She believes in the power of handmade objects that last, and studied at world-class craft schools; The Southwestern School of Art, Mesa Art Center, and Anderson Ranch, as well as studied at Tamarind Institutes' Summer Workshop.
Unlike her contemporaries who largely focus on individualism, she remains dedicated to stoking the fire of universalism and collective bargaining. In her own life, outside of the studio, she has led a tenants' group of 1,000 families, conducted petitions directed at local politicians, and equity firm landlords. Her upcoming body of work focuses on the global corporate landscape, its gaslighting techniques and virtual zoom-rooms that separate us from our humanity.
Sophia del Rio
Artist CV
Artist CV
SOLO AND DUAL ARTIST EXHIBITIONS
2026 Ruth Andres Gallery, Conversation: Part 1. Dallas, TX
2026 Jaycee Art Center, Dirty Dishes, Irving, TX - Canceled due to Political Censorship
2026 Haggardy Library Gallery, Prixe Fixe. Plano, TX
2025 Positive Space, Mise en Place. Tulsa, OK
2023 Arts Fort Worth Gallery, Lust and Suicide. Fort Worth, TX
2023 Near South Side Container, Art South, On the quiet take. Fort Worth, TX
2022 Goldmark Arts Center, John H Milde Gallery, Waiting for the fire to start. Dallas, TX
2018 Goldmark Arts Center, John H Milde Gallery, Susan Shiels Johnson and Sophia del Rio: Echo. Dallas, TX
2018 Lincoln Mill Arts Gallery, Summer Circumventing Time. Huntsville, AL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Independent Curatorial Project: H.O.M.E., The Present is Dark, the Future is Practice. James Harris Gallery, Dallas, TX
2024 Texas Biennial, The Silos at Sawyer Yards, Self Titled – God is under the Rubble, No 2. Houston, TX
2023 Arts Fort Worth, Further Fringe, Fort Worth, TX
2023 Kick Pigeon, Harbor Freight, Fort Worth, TX
2023 RTown Gallery, Yeehaw, Grapevine, TX
2023 FWADA Spring Gallery Night, The Pool Near Southside Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
2022 RTown Gallery, Black and White, Grapevine, TX
2021 East | West Galleries, John Weinkein Student Exhibition, Texas Woman’s University Denton, TX
2019 Xico Gallery, Intercambio Cultural, Phoenix, AZ
2016 Portal Gallery, Deep South and Down Under, Atlanta, GA
2016 John L Santikos Gallery, All School Exhibition, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX
2016 Wharepuke Gallery, Leftovers, Kerikeri, New Zealand
2016 Highwire Gallery, Eclectic Collective, San Antonio, TX
2015 Lions Field Gallery, Art on Broadway, San Antonio, TX
2015 John L Santikos Gallery, All School Exhibition, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX
PRESS
Alicia Chesser “What’s the State of Art in Tulsa Right Now? Artists are Responding to a Political Nightmare.” The Pickup, January 15, 2026
Alicia Chesser “Like the Reastaurant Workers she Portrays, Sophia del Rio’s “Mise en Place” Accomplishes a Lot with a Little, the show at Positive Space is an reflection - and indictment- of the restaurant industry.” The Pickup, October 23, 2026
2026 Ruth Andres Gallery, Conversation: Part 1. Dallas, TX
2026 Jaycee Art Center, Dirty Dishes, Irving, TX - Canceled due to Political Censorship
2026 Haggardy Library Gallery, Prixe Fixe. Plano, TX
2025 Positive Space, Mise en Place. Tulsa, OK
2023 Arts Fort Worth Gallery, Lust and Suicide. Fort Worth, TX
2023 Near South Side Container, Art South, On the quiet take. Fort Worth, TX
2022 Goldmark Arts Center, John H Milde Gallery, Waiting for the fire to start. Dallas, TX
2018 Goldmark Arts Center, John H Milde Gallery, Susan Shiels Johnson and Sophia del Rio: Echo. Dallas, TX
2018 Lincoln Mill Arts Gallery, Summer Circumventing Time. Huntsville, AL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Independent Curatorial Project: H.O.M.E., The Present is Dark, the Future is Practice. James Harris Gallery, Dallas, TX
2024 Texas Biennial, The Silos at Sawyer Yards, Self Titled – God is under the Rubble, No 2. Houston, TX
2023 Arts Fort Worth, Further Fringe, Fort Worth, TX
2023 Kick Pigeon, Harbor Freight, Fort Worth, TX
2023 RTown Gallery, Yeehaw, Grapevine, TX
2023 FWADA Spring Gallery Night, The Pool Near Southside Gallery, Fort Worth, TX
2022 RTown Gallery, Black and White, Grapevine, TX
2021 East | West Galleries, John Weinkein Student Exhibition, Texas Woman’s University Denton, TX
2019 Xico Gallery, Intercambio Cultural, Phoenix, AZ
2016 Portal Gallery, Deep South and Down Under, Atlanta, GA
2016 John L Santikos Gallery, All School Exhibition, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX
2016 Wharepuke Gallery, Leftovers, Kerikeri, New Zealand
2016 Highwire Gallery, Eclectic Collective, San Antonio, TX
2015 Lions Field Gallery, Art on Broadway, San Antonio, TX
2015 John L Santikos Gallery, All School Exhibition, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX
PRESS
Alicia Chesser “What’s the State of Art in Tulsa Right Now? Artists are Responding to a Political Nightmare.” The Pickup, January 15, 2026
Alicia Chesser “Like the Reastaurant Workers she Portrays, Sophia del Rio’s “Mise en Place” Accomplishes a Lot with a Little, the show at Positive Space is an reflection - and indictment- of the restaurant industry.” The Pickup, October 23, 2026
COLLECTIONS
Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY.
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ. Educational and Curatorial Print Department.
Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY.
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ. Educational and Curatorial Print Department.