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The latest artworks, exhibitions and happenings in the studio of Sophia Wallace, a conceptual artist working in mixed media (b. 1978 Seattle, lives in Brooklyn, New York).


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Tomorrow! Open Studio

My Open Studio Weekend Starts Tomorrow!


If you have already RSVP’d, I can’t wait to see you! For those can’t make it, I’ll be posting pictures from the two days and more on the blog. 

Open Studio September 8th & 9th, as part of GOBrooklynArt.org 

My Open Studio – featured in the New Yorker –  is a first look at works created in the last 9 months in the Art Law Residency and a chance to win a handmade screenprint from my new series. All registered visitors to my studio will be entered in the raffle, and there will be raffle draws at 3pm and 6pm on both Saturday and Sunday.

Research artists and plan your itinerary at GOBrooklynArt.org
Download the APP GO Brooklyn Art official to see area maps, and check-in to various studios.

In my neighborhood (Sunset Park), there are 16o artists showing, and 3 in my building-myselfJoel Barhamand, and Ashley Macknica.

Register now so you can check-in to different studios in real time, and login to vote on your favorite studios.
The artist with the most votes at the end of the weekend will be featured in an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum.

My artist number is 98647

My studio will be open to the public on both Saturday and Sunday, from 11pm - 7pm. Come on by and enjoy some drinks, snacks, and BBQ-ed goodness while you check out what I’ve been working on.
Hope to see you all there, and thank you for your continued support!!


Trains: D, N, R train to 36 Street. (2 express stops from Manhattan)
On View: September 8 & 9 12-7pm
Closing Party:  | Sunday, September 9th | 6:00 – 9:00PM

Posted on Saturday, September 8th 2012

Exhibitions with Catherine Opie, Alex Prager, Erwin Olaf, Kelli Connell, et al.


          APRIL 2012 NEWSLETTER
Art by Sophia Wallace
I’m pleased to invite you to my upcoming exhibition and lecture at PHOTO CENTER NW April 12 & 13. This will be my first show in the verdant city of my youth, Seattle, Washington. I will be exhibiting 3 photographs and a video from the series On Beauty.

The last six months have been transformative. My work was curated in exhibitions in the US and abroad with Catherine Opie, Alex Prager, Erwin Olaf, Bruce Weber and more. While in Europe for the Museum exhibition No Fashion Please! I had the priviledge of being featured on ARTE, a German TV program. No Fashion Please! received extensive press including Italian Vogue, Wall Street Journal, Die Presse and many more. For those who could not make it to Vienna but are interested to see the show, there is a gorgeously printed hardcover exhibition catalog available  on ArtBook and Amazon.

Presently, I am in residence with the ART & LAW Residency Program run by VLA. We meet bi-monthly for critical seminars and will hold an exhibition this fall. Already, the residency is impacting my practice in unexpected and exciting ways. I look forward to sharing more about this experience and especially the new work with you all. 

Thank you for your continued support.

AUTHOR & SUBJECT – Contemporary Queer Photography
PHOTO CENTER NW  | Seattle, Washington
On View: April 5 – May 27, 2012
Participating artists: Sophia Wallace, Kelli Connell, Rafael Soldi, Katie Koti, Adrain Chesser, Steven Miller, Chad States, Lorenzo Triburgo, Molly Landreth, Amelia Tovey
OPENING RECEPTION  | Thursday, April 12th | 6:00 – 9:00PM
After Party party at the Wild Rose in Capital Hill
LECTURE  | Sophia Wallace & Kelli Connell
Friday, April 13th | 6:30 – 8:00PM

For more information, visit PCNW.org
Sophia Wallace and Catherine Opie
Sophia Wallace shows with Catherine Opie
View installation photos of A Fine Line: Private Lives for Public View at Colgate University’s Clifford Gallery. In this four person exhibition, Wallace showed 21 works from the autobiographical series Truer with Catherine Opie, Jason Hanasik and JoAnne Santangelo.
Press Preview No Fashion Please
No Fashion Please! reviews by Italian Vogue, Wall Street Journal, ARTE TV
At KUNSTHALLE Wien Museum in Vienna, 19 international artists reject traditional notions of fashion, gender and beauty. ‘From Jeff Bark’s painterly and perverse “Flesh Rainbow” to Sophia Wallace’s portraits of feminized male models, these daring and reckless experiments veer closer to the ceremonies and rituals of body art than to fashion.’ Download complete press here
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Posted on Wednesday, April 11th 2012

Untitled (Purity) from the series On Beauty, ©  2010 Sophia Wallace
If you are in Seattle, please join me at my upcoming exhibition. I’ll be showing photographs and a new video in Author and Subject: Contemporary Queer Photography at PHOTO CENTER NW.
Participating Artists: Kelli Connell, Katie Koti,Molly Landreth, Steven Miller, Adrain Chesser, Rafael Soldi, Chad States, Amelia Tovey, Lorenzo Triburgo and Sophia Wallace.
Author and Subject: Contemporary Queer PhotographyOpening Reception: Thursday, April 12th, 6:00-8:00PMMore info here.

Untitled (Purity) from the series On Beauty, ©  2010 Sophia Wallace

If you are in Seattle, please join me at my upcoming exhibition. I’ll be showing photographs and a new video in Author and Subject: Contemporary Queer Photography at PHOTO CENTER NW.

Participating Artists: Kelli ConnellKatie Koti,Molly LandrethSteven MillerAdrain ChesserRafael SoldiChad StatesAmelia ToveyLorenzo Triburgo and Sophia Wallace.

Author and Subject: Contemporary Queer Photography
Opening Reception:
 Thursday, April 12th, 6:00-8:00PM

More info here.


Posted on Saturday, February 4th 2012

No Fashion Please! on Amazon. The title may say “please,” but the 19 artists featured here are anything but polite in their rejection of traditional notions of fashion, gender and beauty. The media strategies employed are manifold, from staged photographic images, projections and performances to body sculptures, video and film. From Jeff Bark’s painterly and perverse “Flesh Rainbow” to Sophia Wallace’s portraits of feminized male models, these daring and reckless experiments veer closer to the ceremonies and rituals of body art than to fashion, and reinvent the red-carpet question: “who are you wearing?” Participating artists include Chan-Hyo Bae, Tracey Baran, Jeff Bark, Leigh Bowery/Fergus Greer, Steven Cohen/Marianne Greber, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Matthias Herrmann, Lea Golda Holterman, Izima Kaoru, Luigi & Luca, Sandra Mann, Martin & The evil eyes of Nur, Brigitte Niedermair, Erwin Olaf, Alex Prager, Hanna Putz, Viviane Sassen, Sophia Wallace and Bruce Weber.

No Fashion Please! on Amazon

The title may say “please,” but the 19 artists featured here are anything but polite in their rejection of traditional notions of fashion, gender and beauty.

The media strategies employed are manifold, from staged photographic images, projections and performances to body sculptures, video and film. From Jeff Bark’s painterly and perverse “Flesh Rainbow” to Sophia Wallace’s portraits of feminized male models, these daring and reckless experiments veer closer to the ceremonies and rituals of body art than to fashion, and reinvent the red-carpet question: “who are you wearing?” Participating artists include Chan-Hyo Bae, Tracey Baran, Jeff Bark, Leigh Bowery/Fergus Greer, Steven Cohen/Marianne Greber, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Matthias Herrmann, Lea Golda Holterman, Izima Kaoru, Luigi & Luca, Sandra Mann, Martin & The evil eyes of Nur, Brigitte Niedermair, Erwin Olaf, Alex Prager, Hanna Putz, Viviane Sassen, Sophia Wallace and Bruce Weber.

Posted on Friday, February 3rd 2012

2 Days Left to Vote
Thank you for the lovely post genderqueer and Everyone who Voted. You made my day!
Portrait from Sophia Wallace’s series “On Beauty”.
According to the project description, Wallace “…was curious to see what the result would be if [she] photographed men using the unspoken rules that dictate the way women are conventionally posed in photographs and paintings.”
You can vote for Sophia Wallace’s work at the ArtTakesLondon competition (no registration of any kind is necessary). *You can vote every 24 hours.
[Image description: photo of a light-skinned, short haired young man,  taken from slightly above, showing his head and upper torso. He is  wearing only a black, see-through sweater which merges against the black  backdrop. He is gazing towards one side. He holds his arms against his body;  one hand is placed on his stomach and the other on his neck, holding  the sweater against his body, although part of his shoulders and chest  are bared.]

2 Days Left to Vote

Thank you for the lovely post genderqueer and Everyone who Voted. You made my day!


Portrait from Sophia Wallace’s series “On Beauty”.

According to the project description, Wallace “…was curious to see what the result would be if [she] photographed men using the unspoken rules that dictate the way women are conventionally posed in photographs and paintings.”

You can vote for Sophia Wallace’s work at the ArtTakesLondon competition (no registration of any kind is necessary). *You can vote every 24 hours.

[Image description: photo of a light-skinned, short haired young man, taken from slightly above, showing his head and upper torso. He is wearing only a black, see-through sweater which merges against the black backdrop. He is gazing towards one side. He holds his arms against his body; one hand is placed on his stomach and the other on his neck, holding the sweater against his body, although part of his shoulders and chest are bared.]

Posted on Sunday, June 5th 2011

Reblogged from genderqueer

On Beauty 
Gender has been a primary theme of my work over the last ten years. In this new series I examined the charged nature of beauty in masculinity. There are consequences for boys who are considered too pretty. Indeed, becoming a man is full of cruel lessons. Though men are lovely, often it is women who are utilized to represent beauty in Western visual culture. Women also stand in for the emotions of sadness, vulnerability, and passivity while idealized masculinity is often represented as a monolith of unwavering strength. But what about the vulnerability of masculinity? What about masculine doubt, receptivity, melancholy. And what about the uniquely masculine aspects of beauty? I pursued this tension–between the gendered demands made upon aesthetics and emotion–to creat this work.

Posted on Monday, September 13th 2010