Kamila Jidder Sokol is a Cuban visual artist born in Havana and currently based in Miami, Florida. Art has been part of her life since childhood, but she began pursuing it professionally in 2019, when she started her studies at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana, specializing in the Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art, with a focus on easel painting. She completed nearly the full course of study before migrating to the United States.

Her practice is rooted in mixed media, incorporating oil, acrylic, pastel, colored pencils, and various supports including paper, cardboard, kraft paper, canvas, and wood. Her work often begins with dreams, sketches, and everyday experiences that leave a strong emotional impression. Rather than simply depicting what she sees, Sokol seeks to translate sensations into images, particularly those that are difficult to communicate through ordinary language.

Her work is deeply connected to her Cuban identity and to the political and social reality of the country she left behind. Cuba remains present throughout her practice, often through ordinary objects and situations that carry deeper meanings of absence, deprivation, memory, and loss. Her work also reflects her opposition to the Cuban government and the political system under which she and her generation grew up.

Her artistic perspective is shaped by the Cuban avant-garde tradition, cinema, and an ongoing interest in the unconscious, dreams, symbolism, and the psychological dimensions of human experience. These influences come together in a practice that explores the relationship between internal experience and the physical world.

Through her work, Sokol hopes to create an emotional response before an intellectual one. The viewer does not necessarily need to understand the image immediately; what matters first is that it provokes a feeling, raises questions, and creates a desire to discover the story behind it.