Biography

Evelyn Sosa was born in 1989 in Havana, Cuba. Sosa is a photographer who graduated from the Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism program at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York where she was awarded with the Director's Fellowship and the Arnold Newman Scholarship.

She has attended to several photography workshops, among which are the The Eddie Adams Workshop in New York; Chemistry Laboratory of Photography Workshop in the Higher Institute of Arts in Havana; and the Photography Workshops of FotoFest International & Foundation for Culture and Society from Chicago in Havana.

In 2017, Sosa presented Strange Birds of Passage, her first solo exhibition, at the Mariano Rodríguez Gallery in Havana. Her second solo show, Havana Intimate, opened in New York in 2019. In 2023, she exhibited the two-person show You Are Everyone Who Tells a Story at Space 776 in New York. Nocturno, another duo exhibition, was shown in Madrid in 2025 as part of the PHotoESPAÑA Festival. That same year, she opened No Place Is Far Away, her first solo exhibition in Miami.

During her practice since 2011 Sosa has participated in several group exhibitions in Cuba, the United States, Latin America, Europe and Japan where she was invited to Kyotographie Festival in 2019.

In 2024, she was awarded the Cuban Migrant Artist Resilience Fellowship, granted by PEN International and Artists at Risk Connection and the Miami-Dade Individual Artist (MIA) Grant granted by Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs. 

Sosa is the author of the photo-book Havana Intimate, through the lens of Evelyn Sosa published in New York by Uncommon Beauty Gallery in 2019. 

She lives and works in Miami.