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One of the ways I get people to see beyond my disability is as an artist and painter. When I am painting, I can express myself and do not feel limited by my body. Through my painting, I feel like I connect directly with others on a deeper level that doesn't leave room for judgments based on disability. I first got interested in painting in ninth grade. My art teacher was not intimidated by my disability and was the first person to really encourage me. She also saw my potential as an artist. She started my love for painting, and I have loved it ever since.
- Alba Somoza
Exhibition History
2022
Pure Vision Arts: Holiday Show, Group exhibition at Pure Vision Arts Studios
2020
The Journey: A Virtual Art Exhibition Celebrating 30 years of the Americans with Disabilities Act, The Mayor’s Office for People with Developmental Disabilities, NYC.
2019
PURE VISION PURE JOY, group exhibition, 824 Madison Avenue, NYC.
The Eye of the Outsider, group exhibition, La Esquina, NYC.
A Ball for All, The Shield Institute and Pure Vision Arts Gala group exhibition,
Three Sixty, NYC.
Selections from Pure Vision Arts, group exhibition, Google Global Headquarters, NYC.
Selections from Pure Vision Arts, group exhibition, Cloud Gallery, NYC.
2018
Outsider Insight, group exhibition, Pure Vision Arts, NYC.
ART SPEAKS:PIECE BY PIECE group exhibition, V°LITION gallery/Bell-ans
Center of Creative Arts, Orangeburg, NY.
Cordially Invited, a group invitational exhibition featuring progressive studio programs from around the world, Make Studio, Baltimore, MD.
3 Pure Visionaries, The Curator Gallery Chelsea, NYC.
2017
Clifford Chance Law Firm, Pure Vision Arts group exhibition, NYC.
Paint the Town Brown, Three Sixty, NYC.
2016
Birds of a Feather group exhibition, Pure Vision Arts, NYC.
Visions from the Edge, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT.
2015
BEAUTIFUL MINDS pure vision, ROCA, West Nyack, NY.
Somoza Palooza, Metropolitan West, NYC.Somoza Palooza, Metropolitan West, NYC.
2014
Savant-Garde, Pure Vision Arts, NYC
Al Fresco, LWR Fine Art, NYC
Transit on the Spectrum: The Art of Pure Vision, NY Transit Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2013
Personal Space, Pure Vision Arts, NYC
2012
Pure Folk, American Folk Art Museum, NYC
Visions from the Edge, Mass. College of Liberal Arts, Gallery 51, Adams, MA
2011
Innocence & Experience, Pure Vision Arts, NYC
6th Annual Outsider Art in the Hamptons, Gallerie BelAge, Westhampton, NY
2010
Labor of Love, Pure Vision Arts, NYC
Pure Vision Arts at JBFCS, NYC
5th Annual Outsider Art in the Hamptons, Gallerie BelAge, Westhampton, NY
What is a Disability, VSA, Washington, DC
2009
Paradise Found, Pure Vision Arts, NYC
4th Annual Outsider Art in the Hamptons, Gallerie BelAge, Westhampton, NY
Pure Vision Arts at Marlborough Gallery, NYC
The Outsider Art Fair, The Mart, NYC
2008
Modern Primitive, Pure Vision Arts, NYC
Dia de Los Muertos, Rocking Horse Cafe, NYC
Pure Vision Arts at The Jewish Board of Children and Family Services, NYC
Pure Vision Arts at Marlborough Chelsea, NYC
2007
City Folk, Pure Vision Arts, NYC
“Alba Somoza’s workspace hums with her joy, laughter and immense creative energy. As she fulfills her wish to freely experiment and grow, we are seeing the the fresh, compelling expressions of an emerging painter who is just coming into her own. Her spirited abstract expressionistic paintings are quiet and powerful, subtle and monumental. It is a pure expression of the courage, tenacity and beauty that is Alba.”