Sebastiano Sofia

Sebastiano Sofia was born in Verona in 1986. He lives and works between Verona and Milan, and after briefly attending a few courses at the Naba in Milan, he continues his journey as a self-taught artist. He uses painting, drawing and sculpture to develop his personal iconographic universe in which the human body, the animal world and the domain of things are in mutual dialogue, often organised around a narrative centre open to suggestions and interpretations. In her works, contamination and metamorphosis govern the relationship between figures and environments. Sofia explores the fusion between feminine and masculine, between human and animal, between the body as a place of control and the body as a space for the loss of rationality, using a language that reveals the most human and melancholic traits of absurdity and violence.

He has taken part in various artist residencies, including: Viafarini in residence (Milan) 2013, Bevilacqua la Masa (Venice) 2015, Maya Art Center (Sharjah UAE) 2018, Palmieri Collection in 2021 and De Iorio Collection in 2021/2022

Solo exhibitions include 2022 Marèa at Boccanera Gallery in Milan with a text by Alessandro Rabottini, 2019 Anemone at Palazzo Monti in Brescia with a text by Denis Isaia, 2018 Remember me curated by Laura Mezler at Maraya art Center in Sharjah (UAE), 2017 Natural Metamorphosis at Fatma Lootha Gallery in Dubai (UAE), 2016 Ariel at CarDrde in Bologna.