Curriculum Vitae

sophia bartholomew works outwards from the ruins and runes of their own cultural inheritance.

Descended from Norwegian immigrants on Treaty 3 territory in rural Northwestern Ontario, their exploratory, interdisciplinary practice spans drawing, writing, sculpture, installation, photography, video, and collaborative work with other artists. Their lived experience of fragility and permeability has had a profound impact on their work, which uses a rural material poetics to explore movement, porosity, interconnection, and impermanence.

sophia has presented their work in London, Berlin, and Havana, and at art galleries, artist-run centres, and grassroots project spaces across Canada.

They received their BFA from UBC and their MFA from the University of Guelph. Their writing has been published by Art Forum, cmagazine, Black Flash, Canadian Art, Public Parking, and Peripheral Review. Recent exhibitions include CommonOpulence: wishcraft at the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie, The heart is not always a metaphor at the Ministry of Casual Living in Victoria, house holding at the Thunder Bay Art Gallery, and the wind that lives everywhere at 24hr atm lotto in Toronto.

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bartholomew . sophia @ gmail . com

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