sonia louise davis
Born and raised in New York City, sonia louise davis is a visual artist, writer and performer. Her work is deeply invested in improvisation as embodied research. She has been an artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Queens Museum, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, International Studio & Curatorial Program, and Stoneleaf Retreat, among other spaces, and has presented her work at MoMA PS1, the Whitney Museum of American Art; ACRE; Sadie Halie Projects; Ortega y Gasset, and Artists Space, among other venues. Fellowships include the Laundromat Project’s Create Change Fellowship, Civitella Ranieri, Culture Push Fellowship for Utopian Practice, and the Studio Immersion Project Fellowship at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. An honors graduate of Wesleyan University (BA, African American Studies) and alumna of the Whitney Independent Study Program, sonia lives and works in Harlem.
November – December 2024
sonia’s Library
at the Oberon Residency
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape by Katie Holten
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman
Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination by Robin D. G. Kelley
Blank Forms 06: Organic Music Societies edited by Lawrence Kumpf with Naima Karlsson and Magnus Nygren
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
Jack Whitten: Notes from the Woodshed by Jack Whitten
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs