Sofía S. Reeser-del Rio is a Puerto Rican scholar, independent curator, multidisciplinary artist, and educator. Her practice is based between Puerto Rico, Madrid, and NYC. She has organized and produced several major exhibitions with a special focus on Latinx, Latin American, and Caribbean artists, particularly supporting LGBTQ and self-identified female artists from Puerto Rico.  

As part of her curatorial tenure (2012-2017) at El Museo del Barrio in New York, she organized and managed over thirty exhibitions and numerous public programs, artists’ projects, site-specific installations, and off-site special projects. She has worked on exhibitions with Museo Memoria y Tolerancia in Mexico City, Casa de Africa in Habana, Cuba, and Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico as assistant curator and exhibition production manager.

Sofía has an MFA from the University Carlos III of Madrid, SUR Escuela, Spain, and a BFA from the Pratt Institute. She also attended the University of Puerto Rico, where she took courses with renowned Puerto Rican visual artists, educators, and academics that shaped and informed her practices. She is a member of the community-based organization Mujeres de Islas, Inc, a Culebra, PR's NGO. She held the position of Assistant Curator of Public Programs Visual Arts at Americas Society and currently holds the Curator and Associate Director of Programs position at The Clemente Center in the Lower East Side of New York City.