Francisca Sosa López (b. Venezuela) is an artist based between London and Caracas. She received a BA in Fine Arts and Art History from the University of Colorado, Boulder (2015) and an MFA in Painting from the Slade School of Fine Arts, London (2020).
Working across painting, embroidery, sculpture, and installation, Sosa López explores materiality and process as forms of communication. Her practice centers on the idea and shifting definition of home, drawing on themes of migration, memory, femininity, and cultural contrast. Through abstraction, both visual and conceptual. She channels methods such as meditation, music, automatic drawing, and playful studio experimentation, often reconnecting with her childhood self to generate new work.
Sosa López has exhibited internationally and participated in projects with institutions including the British Museum and the V&A East Museum. She has received the Provost Purchase Prize for UCL East (2020) and the Adrien Carruther’s ACME Award (2020/21), was nominated for the Almacantar Studio Award (2020), and was selected as one of Saatchi Art’s Rising Stars (2020). Most recently, she won first place in the Utilitarian Art category of Concurso de Arte Contemporáneo Creadoras II (Caracas, 2025). Her work is held in the UCL East Collection and the CIFO Collection.
CVEducation
2018 - 2020 | The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL MFA in Painting with Distinction
2011 - 2015 | University Colorado, Boulder BA Art History | BA Fine Arts
Solo Exhibitions | Two Person Exhibitions
Upcoming: The million(s) bag project, Secadero 3, 2026
Retornar a lo que fue, sacar del foso la fe, La Hacienda la Trinidad, Caracas, 2024
Abya Yala, The land that saw us being born, British Museum, London, 2023
"Agarré mis peroles y me fui” for The Box, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, 2022
Acme 2021 Showcase: Evangelia Dimitrakopoulou & Francisca Sosa López, Peer Gallery, London, 2021
Group Exhibitions
Transformaciones: Humanidad, Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas, 2025
In Between, V&A East Museum, London, 2024
Hotel Warszawa Art Fair, Heliconia Projects, Warsaw, 2024
The Fragility of Ancestral Time, Heliconia Projects, Santo Domingo, 2024
Field of Difference, Palmer Gallery, London, 2024
Absence Makes the Heart, General Information, London, 2022
The Expanse in Between, Grove Collective, London, 2022
Hilando Mesas, Latin American House, London, 2022
Conversations with memory, Cedric Bardawil, London, 2022
Season of Migration, The Grove Collective, London, 2021
Slade Summer Shows, London, 2021
Her Dark Materials, Eye of the Huntress, online exhibition, 2021
New Futures Digital: Slade Focus Kovet.Art, online exhibition, 2021
Textural Codes, The Koppel Project Space; Organized by AMALGAMA, London, 2020
London Grads Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, 2020
RCA & Slade Graduate show, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, 2020
Pulling Teeth, ASC Gallery, London, 2019
Awards and Collections
First Place in Utilitarian Art: Proyecto Creadoras, Concurso de Arte Contemporáneo, 2025, Caracas
Selected for Provost Purchase Prize for UCL East, 2020, London
Selected for the Adrian Carruther’s Award 2020/21, London
Nominated for Almacantar Studio Award 2020, London
Selected for Saatchi Art’s Rising Stars 2020
Selected for Liquitex White Wall project, The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, 2019
Visiting Artist in Camberwell University of the Arts, London, 2019
Public Art Collection for UCL East
CIFO Art Collection