Rio Sofia Email & Phone Number

Río Sofia is a visual artist, arts worker, and organizer. Her recent body of artwork explores forced feminization porn, a genre that fantasizes about experiencing gender transformation through coercion and loss of control. This project was spotlighted in Out Magazine's April and August 2019 print issues, and led her to present her work at institutions such as The New Museum, Princeton University, and Rutgers University. With her focus rooted at the intersection of art and trans liberation, Rio began organizing as an undergraduate student at Cooper Union, where she executed several art and academic events, notably working alongside curators Stamatina Gregory and Jeanne Vaccaro on "Bring Your Own Body: Transgender Between Archives and Aesthetics". Additionally, she and a group of student activists organized a multi-year effort to successfully de-gender all bathrooms on campus, transforming Cooper Union into the first university in the country entirely without gendered bathroom signage. In 2018, Rio co-founded Body Hack, a happy hour for trans and nonbinary people in Brooklyn that, since migrating to the web during the COVID-19 pandemic, has served as a virtual party and fundraising platform for trans communities internationally. In June 2020, Rio joined a small team of volunteers to organize a viral fundraising campaign with GLITS, an organization founded by trans and sex worker advocate Ceyenne Doroshow, that brought together hundreds of volunteers and over 25,000 donations in under a week—raising a total of over $1M. She is currently the Programs & Operations Director at Queer|Art, a New York City based organization serving LGBTQ+ artists across generations and disciplines.