Haitian-American artist and award-winner, Sophia Lacroix, was born and raised in Haiti. She migrated to the U.S. at 15, worked in social services full-time, and was a self-taught part-time artist. She creates bright, hyperrealistic oil paintings and charcoal drawings of scenes of everyday life from her nostalgic memories of Haiti. Sophia has earned numerous awards, and various books and magazines have cited her art. Her 6-foot by 9-foot mural, commissioned in 2008 by the City of Miami, is permanently displayed at the Little Haiti Cultural Center. Sophia’s oil painting, “Bay Tete,” won “Best in Show” at the City of Pembroke Pines’ 17th Annual ART Competition in 2022. She won a solo exhibit in the Fall of 2023 from the Art and Culture Center/Hollywood’s 2022 Florida Biennial: Installations, Portraiture, Materiality, and Magic Realism, a competitive show at MOCA Jacksonville.