Andrew Soria is a photographer & visual artist creating pop surreal cityscapes that explore the intersection of infrastructure, culture, & memory.
BIOGRAPHY
BIO
B. 1986, Red Bank, NJ
Andrew Soria is a pop surrealist photographer known for hyperreal, large-scale cityscape composites. Drawing from his Latino heritage and personal experiences, he constructs dense, vividly colored environments by individually photographing and assembling architectural elements, signage, and urban textures into meticulously detailed compositions.
His work explores the tension between nostalgia and modernity, often centering on the visual overload of commercial landscapes and the stories embedded within them. Series such as Welcome to the Neighborhood, Beverly Row, and Faded Glory examine themes of class disparity, cultural identity, and the layered contradictions of city life, using surreal photomontage to transform familiar places into immersive, dreamlike environments.
Soria has exhibited internationally in cities including Miami, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Paris, Berlin, Hong Kong, Toronto, and Seoul. His work has been featured in publications such as Juxtapoz, Hi-Fructose, Plastik, and Assouline.
01 — Observe
I spend months photographing neighborhoods, collecting architecture, storefronts, signage, textures, and overlooked details before they change.
02 — Reconstruct
Hundreds of photographs are assembled into a single imagined landscape that reflects both the physical city and the way it is remembered.
03 — Preserve
The final work becomes a visual archive that exists somewhere between documentary photography and constructed memory.
MEDIUM
Photography, digital collage, & archival reconstruction.
I create large-scale photographic environments by combining hundreds of original photographs taken in urban neighborhoods. Through digital collage, these images are reconstructed into surreal cityscapes that explore memory, cultural identity, and change.
SELECT
PRESS
Not Real Art, Digital, March 2024
Artrepreneur, Digital, November 2023
Assouline, Arturo Fuente: Since 1912, 34-35, February 2023
The Beat Hong Kong, Digital, October 2022
Collater.al, Digital, July 2022
Booooooom, Digital, July 2022
this isn’t happiness Digital, April 2022
Not Real Art, Digital, April 2022
Studio Magazine, Issue #15 Pop, February 2019
Nikon Pro, Digital, November 2018
Plastik Magazine, Vol 28, Summer 2016, 60-69, June 2016
Juxtapoz Magazine, “America the Beautiful”, November 2015
Booooooom, Digital, September 2015
Juxtapoz Magazine, 114, May 2015
Hi-Fructose Magazine, Digital, October 2014