Sofia Crespo is an Argentinian visual artist living and working in Lisbon, her work centers on technology, drawing inspiration from biology, organic life and how the natural environment uses artificial mechanisms to stimulate and evolve.
Crespo converges this interest with a closer look at AI and the similarities between the biological and the artificial. Drawing connections between historical innovations like microscopes and cameras that transformed our understanding of reality, to contemporary neural networks that reshape how we process and interpret complex patterns, Crespo sees technology as a product of organic life, of which it originates.
This technological lineage informs projects like Neural Zoo (2018-2020) and Structures of Being (2024), which position machine learning as an extension of natural processes, drawing parallels between AI image formation and biological pattern recognition.
Her work has been exhibited globally at institutions including the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and Times Square, New York City. In 2022, Swim, a piece created through her duo with Feileacan McCormick “Entangled Others”, was acquired by the Buffalo AKG Art Museum for its permanent collection. Along with Anna Ridler, Sofia Crespo won the 2025 ABS Digital Art Prize in the Artists of the Year Category.
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