Sofia Love (b. 1999, Boston, MA) is a multidisciplinary artist and designer tackling themes of identity, perception, queer expression, and cultural aestheticism. Born and raised in Boston, but with deep family ties to the Mexican community of Laredo, TX, Love’s acrylic paintings serve as a negotiation between ancestral memory and contemporary identity. The cowgirl recurs throughout her work – gun slinging, brown, and frequently nude – framed by expanses of desert. She’s a real, historical cowgirl. She’s the artist traversing her own imagination. For Love, the vaquera is an object of desire and an extension of herself.

Love received her BFA in Integrated Design from Parsons School of Design (New York, NY) with a concentration in Fine Art and a minor in Latin American Art and Design History in 2022. Love had her debut solo exhibition ‘VAQUERA’ in March 2023 at Shelter Gallery (New York, NY). Love is the Digital Director at Sargent’s Daughters (New York, NY; Los Angeles, CA). She is currently an Artist-in-Residence at Casa Na Ilha (Ilhabela, Brazil) in Spring 2024. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.