NADA New York 2025

Sofía del Mar Collins (b. 1995, San Juan, Puerto Rico) has become known for her hand dyed textile paintings which are inspired by the lush Caribbean landscape, particularly its rich wetlands. The artist has a deep connection to nature and she creates her own pigments from botanical sources, bringing the earth further into her work through material. Each piece is a meditation on space and circularities, echoing the blurred boundaries of birth in decay present in natural landscapes. The paintings maintain a dynamic fluidity which speaks to the artist’s actions and gestures against fractalized geometric compositions that put into play color theory explorations. In a developing line of work del Mar Collins currently considers symbology in the form of letters. The artist incorporates for example shapes that resemble the letters T and O into her works, recalling the ornate first letters in illuminated manuscripts. She selected these letters in particular for their formal connection to the body, and the poetic potential of the shapes.