Bosco Sodi is a Mexican contemporary artist. He was born in Mexico City in 1970, and works in Barcelona, Berlin, Mexico, and New York City.[1][2]

Bosco Sodi
Born1970
NationalityMexican
Children3
RelativesSodi family
Websiteboscosodi.com

Work edit

In 2014 Sodi opened Casa Wabi, an arts centre outside Puerto Escondido, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Parts of it were designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Tadao Ando.[3][4] He also operates an exhibition place called Santa María in Mexico City, and an art residency called Casa Nano in Tokyo.[3]

His installation Muro – a wall of bricks made in Mexico – was built in Washington Square Park in New York on 8 September 2017, and dismantled the same day by passers-by who took a brick each.[2] The work was created again on the South Bank in London on the occasion of the visit to the United Kingdom of Donald Trump.[5]

Life edit

Sodi is the son of Juan Sodi, a property developer and chemical engineer.[4] He lives in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, with his wife the designer Lucía Corredor, and his three teenagers.[3]

References edit

  1. ^ Peter Milosheff (22 September 2010). Mexican Artist Bosco Sodi's Bronx Exhibition. Bronx Times. Archived 17 October 2011.
  2. ^ a b Abraham Martinez (8 September 2017). Mexican Artist Bosco Sodi Built a Wall Faster Than Trump. New York: Observer. Accessed December 2018.
  3. ^ a b c Laura van Straaten (26 April 2022). Can a New Art Space Refresh a Tired Downtown? The New York Times. Accessed September 2022.
  4. ^ a b Elisa Lipsky-Karasz (2 October 2014). Casa Wabi: Bosco Sodi's Arts Foundation. The Wall Street Journal. Archived 22 April 2015.
  5. ^ Alexandra Topping (9 July 2018). Donald Trump to face 'carnival of resistance'. The Guardian. Accessed December 2018.

Further reading edit

  • Dakin Hart, Juan Manuel Bonet (2020). Bosco Sodi. New York: Rizzoli International. ISBN 9780847867875.