Sophia Garcia (b. 1997, Los Angeles, CA), also known as Espina del Valle, is a multidisciplinary artist from the San Fernando Valley.

Deeply nostalgic and influenced by their upbringing in the Valley, Sophia aims to document and preserve the sensations of the radical, multicultural worlds they know through various mediums including analog photography, video & screenwriting. They are additionally inspired by Los Angeles history, cinema, community organizing, architecture and light. Through their work, Sophia hopes to build an archive of Los Angeles and its sensations amidst rampant gentrification, and create a source of connection between past and future generations of Angelenos.

They graduated from the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts in 2015, with focuses in Visual Arts and Dance, and Eugene Lang The New School in 2018 where they majored in Arts in Context with a minor in Journalism + Design.

Sophia has featured work at Self Help Graphics, as part of Illuminate LA: Collective Memory Installation in Grand Park, the LA LGBT Center and Goethe-Institut Los Angeles.

They currently work as a freelance artist in Los Angeles.