Bio

Born in Valencia, Venezuela, Sonia Osio is a healer, visual artist, singer, songwriter, and improviser. At age 18, she joined a community of Native Peoples in the mountains of Carabobo. People there grew coffee, oranges, and cacao. She lived for 20 years in that magical environment, creating visual and performance art with the community. In 2004 Sonia came to the United States to further develop her multiple arts. 

Sonia Osio’s practice grows from a lifelong relationship with art as a way of connecting people, cultures, and ideas. Working across mediums and through collaborative projects, she creates space for shared expression, resilience, and hope.

Her work is rooted in the belief that art can respond to the world’s challenges while also making room for peace, justice, and imagination. Through participatory and community-centered creation, she invites people of all ages and backgrounds to see their stories as worthy of being made visible.

The Global Mandala is one of her most meaningful and challenging projects. The project grew through conversations, mailed contributions, and participation from communities around the world, eventually reaching all 7 continents.

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Community engagement and talks

  • Sonia has given talks on the Global Mandala, including as a guest speaker at the Atlanta Soto Zen Center, where she framed the project as a symbol of love, justice, peace, and oneness.
  • Events and posts about “Global Mandala with Sonia Osio” frame the work as a community art experience, inviting people to help create large outdoor mandalas in public spaces.

Music and recordings

  • She has an album titled “Soy Manantial” (2010), with nine songs and a spiritual/Christian focus; tracks include “Mi casa,” “Soy Manantial,” and “Through Your Eyes.”music.youtube
  • Streaming platforms list her as a recording artist, with songs such as “Manos Santas” and “Su Voz” available on Apple Music and similar services.

Online presence and objects

  • She maintains an Instagram account under the name Sonia Osio Ron, where she shares photos of sculptures and other artworks.
  • Her work also appears in objects like a hand‑painted “Four Seasons – Vivaldi” violin wall sculpture offered on Etsy, credited to her as the artist.