Sophie Sanders

I am a multidisciplinary artist, yogi, and scholar of art history born and raised in New York City. My work synthesizes ideas and imagery from global art history, nature, and the human body. My paintings, prints, and fiber artworks have been exhibited nationally and internationally in England, Germany, Scotland, Japan, and throughout the United States. I exhibited over 40 works in a solo show at the African American Museum in Dallas, TX in 2006. In 2019, my "Ophelia Rising" exhibition took place at both campuses of New England College in New Hampshire. I was an artist-in-residence at Elsewhere Museum in Greensboro, NC in 2021 and my artwork is part of the museum collection. In 2023, my cyanotype photography and a site-specific mural were presented in Lonnie Graham’s curated exhibition at The Museum of No Spectators at Burning Man festival in Nevada, a project by architect John Marx that was featured in the Venice Architecture Biennale. The same year, I created 2 paste-paper murals for the City of Keene that were displayed next to the Colonial Theater in Keene, NH.

In 2024, my public art project entitled Here and Now Mandalas, was awarded multiple grants: the New Hampshire State Council for the Arts’ Community Arts Grant, ...

2013 PhD in Art History, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia
Dissertation: "Spirited Pattern and Decoration in Contemporary Black Atlantic Art"
1997 MFA, Printmaking, The Slade School of Art, University College London, England (1997)
1993 BFA, Washington University in St. Louis, MO
Temple University Rome Art Program, Rome, Italy
1991 University of Georgia Cortona Program, Italy

SELECT SOLO AND 2-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2025 "Blue: Water as Metaphor", forthcoming 2-person exhibition with Sabra Booth at Palmetto Center for the Arts, Northwest Vista College, Alamo Colleges, San Antonio, TX
2019 "Sophie Sanders: Ophelia Rising" and "Sight/Insight," concurrent solo exhibitions at both campuses of the Institute of Art and Design at New England College (NEC) in Manchester, NH and Henniker, NH
2006 "Dust Off Your Feet and Keep on Dancing", African American Museum, Dallas, TX

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2024 "Free Tree Spirits", cyanotype public art installation for the performance stage of Barefoot Music and Arts Festival, Bethel Farm Yoga, Hillsboro, NH. An additional project was a live painting performance and a collaborative cyanotype photograph with yogis.
2024 "Art in the Park", Peterborough, NH. Public art fair in Monadnock, NH.
2023 "Eyes on the Ground", sculpture exhibited at Peterborough Town Library, NH
2023 "The Museum of No Spectators" at Burning Man 2023, Black Rock City, Nevada. A site-specific mural created as part of John Marx’s playa installation curated by Lonnie Graham, simultaneously exhibited at the Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy
2022 "The Museum of No Spectators" at Burning ...