Researcher, Writer, Curator
Sofia Rivera
Sofia Rivera is a New York-based researcher, writer, and emerging curator interested in the intersection of archives, images, and public history. She is a Judy Fleischman Scholar at Hunter College, CUNY, where she is pursuing an M.A. in Art History with an emphasis on photography history and curation. Originally from New Orleans and Covington, Louisiana, she is interested in making historical narratives accessible through dynamic visual storytelling.
She holds a B.A. in History with a focus on international relations from Columbia University (2024), where she held research positions at the Columbia University School of Journalism, the Stavros Niarchos Public Humanities Initiative, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Most recently, Sofia has interned in the Curatorial Department at the Whitney Museum of American Art and was a Curatorial Fellow for the Hunter College Art Galleries’ 2026 show, Speaking in Pairs. She has also assisted in curatorial and programming initiatives for the Hunter College Department of Art and Art History, such as the 2025 Print Matters: Media and Modernity in Illustrated Magazines book launch, and the Brooklyn Fine Art Print Fair.
She is currently a researcher and writer for 10×10 Photobooks and an Outreach & Communications Intern for the photo-based nonprofit, Photolucida. This summer, she will continue developing a research project centering artistic interventions on archival images, to be released on her Substack.