Suni Sonqo Vizcarra Wood (Quechua Nation, Peru) is an artist born in
Taos, NM (1996) and raised in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, Peru. He
studied sculpture at the Art University Bellas Artes Diego Quispe Tito in
Cusco, Peru and is currently getting his BFA in sculpture at the Institute of
American Indian Art (IAIA) in Santa Fe, NM. He has participated in several
art shows in Cusco. His sculpture is mixed media and is currently focusing
on bronze casting. Suni’s inspiration comes from his Quechua ancestry
and the wisdom of Andean worldview important in his life. Suni is a
member of the Kusi Kawsay Educational Community, and a musician of
the Kusi Ñan traditional Cusqueña music group. His work explores new
ways of seeing and understanding. He transmits messages that awaken a
balance between living immersed in this world of modernity without
separating from ancestral roots in order to emerge with dignity, and to
build a collective destiny.