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Sonia Gil
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City: Rio de Janeiro
Country: Brazil
Language: English, Portuguese


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Sonia was born in Salvador, Brazil, in 1961. She studied Architecture at the School of Architecture and Urbanism (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) and began her art studies at the Modern Art Museum of Rio de Janeiro. After graduating she persued a career as an architect, working with urban issues. From 1989 to 1994 she was the technical director of the Rio de Janeiro based NGO Institute of Technology for the Citizen, focusing on the sustainable urban environment. Apart form coordinating the working team, she also developed the graphic image of the institution, for projects, campaigns and conferences, using new computer graphic technologies, such as Geographic Information System and animation to help dissemination of ideas. Between 1994 and 1999 she helped to coordinate The United Nationīs Local Initiatives for the Urban Environment Program in Brazil. Her growing interest in urban issues lead her to travel seeking international forums where she could learn from successfull experiences of downtown regeneration. She would find in art and art-related events a guiding force in creating healthy and dynamic centers that anchor the well being of cities. At the turn of the century she would move on again to start off, along with her husband, a Consulting firm to work with Marketing Intelligence and territory analysis, helping corporations to understand their outside business and to create new scenarios. It was while coordinating a group of geographers and urbanists that she would develop a growing interest in the connection between maps and art. So she decided it was time to reinvent herself and become fully an artist. In october 2004 she made her solo exhibition Imaginary Maps at the Centro Cultural Banco do Nordeste, Fortaleza, Northeast of Brazil. She currently lives and works in Rio de Janeiro.
 
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"Imaginary Maps" presents a work based on aerial photographs, where plotted images and paintings complete themselves to form an imaginary urban fabric