Sofia Arez was born in Lisbon. She graduated from Master in Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. She moved to Macau, China in 2012. In a singular path marked by a significant artistic curriculum that includes works in painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, and video, showing figurations that explore deep inner emotions and, more recently, empty landscapes. Apparently diverse, one quickly recognizes however the profound coherence of her work that crosses the sense of asceticism with the divestiture of abstraction motivated by the sublime.She has been awarded the Final selection, Prémio CELPA/Vieira da Silva, Fundação Arpad Szènes – Vieira da Silva.Honourable mention, 2º Grande Prémio BANIF de Pintura, Centro Nacional de Cultura. Her solo exhibition in Setúbal”Ritos de Passagem” and in lisbon “Lugar do Ser””Lugar do Observador””Galeria Fábulas””In-Finito”.