“The three 2024 Boston Artadia Awardees represent exciting and important voices in the Boston art scene. Engaging urgent topics as varied as water ecosystems, criminal justice, and Yoruba cosmology, these artists deploy materials, language, and cultural traditions to make connections between individual identity and community experience. Each artist draws on their own personal and professional histories to create works of art that speak to our society’s current need for care, joy, and hope.” – juror M. Rachael Arauz, Independent Curator.

Gabriel Sosa (b.1985, Miami, Florida) is a Cuban-American artist, educator, community builder, and curator whose work explores how words—and the scope of their interpretation—define and condition our understanding of the world around us. Sosa spent over a decade working as a court interpreter in the Massachusetts Trial Court. He draws from legal proceedings, personal archives, and contemporary visual culture to nurture a multidisciplinary art practice.

In the public space, he considers how language can both strengthen and problematize our relationship to our surroundings. By subverting platforms often traditionally used for advertising, and camouflaging alternative ideas within them, he brings buried conversations to light, and sparks new ones in unexpected places. Throughout his practice, he recognizes that words can often fail us, but asks, how can we shape them to do otherwise?

Most recently, his work has been featured at the Fitchburg Art Museum and the Wagner Foundation in Cambridge. He is also one of the artists invited to participate in the first Boston Public Art Triennial in 2025.