Biography

Evelyn Sosa was born in 1989 in Havana, Cuba. Sosa is a photographer with preference for intimate and documentary portraiture. Evelyn 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 2016 Sosa was the winner of the Herman Puig Prize, awarded to the best artist of the Body Photography Salon in Havana and in 2021 she obtained a special mention in the 7th edition of Post-it Cuban Contemporary Art event. During her practice since 2011 Sosa has participated in several group exhibitions in Cuba, the United States, Europe and Japan where she was invited to Kyotographie Festival in 2019. In 2024, she was awarded the Artist Resilience Fellowship, granted by PEN International and Artists at Risk Connection.

In 2017 Sosa exhibited Strange Birds of Passage, her first personal show in Mariano Rodríguez Gallery in Havana. Her second personal exhibition Havana Intimate was opened in New York in 2019. 

In 2023 she exhibited the duo show You are Everyone Who Tells a Story in Space 776 in New York. 

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.