IDA SOPHIA

Resident November 2023

Ida Sophia (1989) is a performance artist with a hybrid media, sculpture and installation practice that draws on the body to render performative works in various materials. Beginning with personal narratives, Ida’s work is characterised by conceptual examinations of widely shared, uncomfortable human experiences such as hope, regret, familial tension and grief. Ultimately, the works construct a capacity to accept, understand and process pain within our faculty of reason, will and belief.

Ida has been awarded prizes including the prestigious Ramsay Art Prize (2023), Emerging Artist of The Year award (2021) and Centre for Creative Health Award (2021) and has been featured on the television show ABC Artworks (2021, 2023) and ABC Radio National (2023).

Ida has exhibited widely in Australia and Europe including: The Art Gallery of South Australia (Aus, 2023), Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (Aus, 2023) Seventh Gallery (Aus, 2023), Performance Space, (Aus, 2022), Floating Goose Studios (2021), The Venice International Performance Art Week (Italy, 2020), Sofia Art Week (Bulgaria, 2020), Æther (Bulgaria 2019), Collective Haunt Gallery (Aus, 2019) and ACU Gallery (Aus, 2019).