Sophie Cooper White, C.V. 2024
sopwhite@gmail.com
Education:
MFA, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 2017
BFA, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY, 2006
Exhibitions:
1/2025, TBD, The Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia, PA
4/2024, No Synthetic Colors, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
11/2023, Figure-Ground, ICOSA Art Collective, Austin, TX
9/2023, Philly ArtBlog Fundraiser, The Galleries at Moore, Philadelphia, PA
6/2023, Celebrating 40 Years, CFEVA, The Galleries at Moore, Philadelphia, PA
1/2023, Observed, The Plastic Club, Philadelphia, PA
12/2022, Winter 2022 Fundraiser, Automat Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
11/2022, RAIR Trash Bash 2022, Atelier FAS Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
12/2022, Location, paintings by Sophie C. White, Center For Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA
6/2022, A Place to Live, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA
6/2022, Gowanus Open Studios, Ciao Bow Wow, Brooklyn, NY
5/2022, Frankford Ave, recent work by Sophie C. White, House Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
4/2022, Overhead, work by Sophie C. White, Marginal Utility Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
10/2021, POST with Center For Emerging Visual Artists, Woodmere Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
10/2021, Gowanus Open Studios, Ciao Bow Wow, Brooklyn, NY
4/2021, Share the Love Gala, University City Arts League, Philadelphia, PA
12/2020, Then Is New, Online, Fleisher Ollman, Philadelphia, PA
11/2020, Catastrophe, Sophie C. White, Practice, Philadelphia, PA
3/2020, Development, 50 new works by Sophie C. White, Front Space, Philadelphia, PA
2/2020, The Stillness of the City, Cerulean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
12/2019, Wall Space XVII, New York Ice Cream Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
10/2019, Benefit Performance for Project Safe, Visual Art by Sophie White, Fire Museum Presents at Mascher Space Co-Op, Philadelphia, PA
7/2019, Wall Space XIV, New York Ice Cream Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
7/2019, Summer Exhibition, Gross McCleaf, Philadelphia, PA
12/2018, Winter Colors, Gross McCleaf, Philadelphia, PA
10/2018, Ponder, Gross McCleaf, Philadelphia, PA
9/2018, Born to Shop, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA
4/2018, PAFA Meets Pratt, Old City Jewish Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
2/2018, The Greatest Show on Earth, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
12/2017, Small Works, Cerulean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
8/2017, Get It While It’s Cheap #5, Marginal Utility, Philadelphia, PA
7/2017, Playbook, selected MFA work from PAFA and BU, On Stellar Rays, New York, NY
9/2016, Happiness, Liberty, Life? American Art and Politics, PAFA, Philadelphia, PA
11/2015, We Pain, Lump, Raleigh, NC
5/2015, Let’s Be Real, Projekt 722, Brooklyn, NY
3/2014, The Last Brucenniel, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York, NY
10/2013, Abreaction, Tri-Lox Workshop, Brooklyn, NY
10/2012, Lumpy Land, Magic Pictures, Philadelphia, PA
4/2012, The Brucenniel 2012: Harderer. Betterer. Fasterer. Strongerer. BHQF, New York, NY
6/2011, Epic Pain, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
4/2011, Sophie White: Magic Objects, Magic Pictures, Philadelphia, PA
2/2011, The Haunted Fridge, Magic Pictures, Philadelphia, PA
2/2010, Miseducation: the 2010 Brucenniel, BHQF, New York, NY
3/2009, One City, 33 Washington Street, Newark, NJ
6/2008, Beyondo, SubOcto Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
6/2008, Sophie White: Windows, Cakeshop, New York, NY
12/2007, Uncommon Thread, Madarts, Brooklyn, NY
12/2006, Hungry Ghosts II, Glassworks Building, New York, NY
11/2006, Human Nature 2, Yukiko Kawase Galerie d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
10/2006, Slick Contemporary Art Fair, La Bellevilloise, Paris, France
7/2006, Hungry Ghosts, Glassworks Building, New York, NY
Honors:
2020, Fellowship, The Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA
2017, Venture Fund Grant, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2016, The Nokey Award, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia,PA
2015, MFA Merit Award, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2015, Graduate Grant Award, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2006, The Michael S. Vivo Award for Excellence in Drawing, Cooper Union, New York, NY
2002, Four-year, Full Tuition Merit Scholarship, Cooper Union, New York, NY
Residencies:
8/2021, Research Residency, The Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA
7/2016, Dumfries House Artist Residency, The Royal Drawing School, East Ayrshire, Scotland
9/2014, The Magician, The Golden Dome, Woodstock, NY, USA
Music and Sound:
I’ve performed at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, MoMA PS1, Queens, New
York, the Prospect Park Bandstand, Brooklyn, New York, and numerous galleries, basements,
loft parties and dive bars all over North America.