Sofiya Kuzmina

Sofiya was born in Moscow in 1998 and is currently based in New York City.

Sofiya has developed a personal vision based on intimate moments of her life as a means to draw commentary about complex yet commonly relatable ideas. The focuses of some of her recent series are exploring the duality of lives of New York City nightlife performers in the time of pandemic isolation or discussing the sense of belonging in the context of immigration. A lot of her art draws inspiration from my experience of immigrating to New York from Russia and discovering a new more open-minded culture she was not exposed to before. The vibrant artistic community she was immersed into in the US often becomes the subject of her mainly figurative paintings. In her work, Sofiya wants to create a connection between Russian humanistic tradition of painting and contemporary themes of urban living in a Western megapolis. Growing up in such vastly different backgrounds inspires her to express all of the influences she encountered on her path and show the vulnerability that unites the people in both worlds.

Sofiya prefers oil paint as her main material due to its ability to convey light and intricate color relations through the layering of transparencies. She ...

2021-2023
MFA New York Academy of Art

2017-2021
BFA School of Visual Arts

2015-2017
Miami Arts Charter School
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2015-2017
Institute of Contemporary Art Young Artists Initiative
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2016
School of Visual Arts Pre-college Illustration Program

2023
Deck the Walls
Group Show, New York Academy of Art,
New York, NY
Corpus Nexus
Group Show, Dacia Gallery, New York, NY
West Chelsea Art Festival
Group Show, Caelum Gallery, New York, NY
AXA Art Prize Show Exhibition
Group Show, New York Academy of Art,
New York, NY
MFA Thesis Exhibition
Group Show, New York Academy of Art,
New York, NY
Compositional Inventions
Group Show, Manhasset Public Library,
Manhasset, NY
Metamorphosis
Group Show, The Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Tribeca Ball
Group Show, New York Academy of Art,
New York, NY
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2022
Deck the Walls
Group Show, New York Academy of Art,
New York, NY
The Present
Group Show, The Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Walls
Group Show, New York Academy of Art,
New York, NY
Hexposition
3-Person Exhibition, The Royal Society of American Art, Brooklyn, NY
P E O P L E
Group Show, FRIEDA Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Truth or Dare
Group Show, The Living Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Carpe Diem
Group Show, Dacia Gallery, New York, NY
Hiraeth
Group Show, New York Academy of Art,
New York, NY
Immersion of Creativity
The Zverev Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
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2021
Partitions
Juried Online Exhibition, SVA Galleries,
New York, NY

2020
Man Made Monsters
Juried Online Exhibition, SVA Galleries,
New...