Sofia Valiente received her BFA in Art from Florida International University in Miami in 2012 and she is currently a graduate student in Visual Arts at the University of California, Riverside. Valiente is an award-winning photographer and interdisciplinary artist with two published books “Miracle Village” (2014) and “Foreverglades” (2019). In 2015, she received the World Press Photo award for Miracle Village (1st prize, portraits, stories) and she is also a two-time recipient of the South Florida Cultural Consortium Artist Fellowship. In 2017, Sofia won the Knight Arts Challenge Grant for Foreverglades and in 2018 she received a State of Florida Individual Artist grant. Sofia's work has been published in Time, the Guardian, Smithsonian, Vice, American Photo Magazine, and many other media outlets. She is represented by Daniel Blau Gallery in Munich, Germany and her projects have been exhibited internationally with solo shows in London, Paris, Munich and NYC and in numerous other group shows in museums and photography festivals around the world. To learn more about Sofia’s work, you can visit her website at www.sofiavaliente.com or follow her on Instagram at @valiente_sofia