sonia louise davis (b. 1988) is a visual artist, writer, and performer born and raised in New York City. Her work is deeply invested in improvisation as embodied research. In February 2024 Artnet named her one of five artists redefining New York's art scene. Her first institutional solo show, to reverberate tenderly, was recently on view at the Queens Museum, where she was a 2023 Jerome Foundation Emerging Artist Fellow. Her newest book, slow and soft and righteous, improvising at the end of the world (and how we make a new one), was published in May 2021 by Co—Conspirator Press, which operates out of the Feminist Center for Creative Work in Los Angeles. In December 2021 she was invited to curate a benefit exhibition to support the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, hosted by Greene Naftali and featuring 106 artists.

sonia has presented her work at the Whitney Museum of American Art; ACRE; Sadie Halie Projects; Ortega y Gasset, and Artists Space, among other venues. Residencies and fellowships include the Laundromat Project’s Create Change Fellowship; Civitella Ranieri; New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellowship at the International Studio & Curatorial Program; Culture Push Fellowship for Utopian Practice; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace Artist in Residence Program; Studio Immersion Project Fellowship at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop; Right Now Artist Publication Grant from Women’s Studio Workshop; and Stoneleaf Retreat. She is an honors graduate of Wesleyan University (BA, African American studies) and an alumna of the Whitney Independent Study Program. sonia lives and works in Harlem.