Sofia Nifora 1995

Sofia Nifora’s (b.1995 Patras, Greece) work revolves around fantasy and out of joint reality. The wild and bucolic landscapes of her upbringing in rural Greece act as a starting point for her paintings and as a fertile ground for reminiscence: personal experiences of grief, loss and migration are here translated into symbols of things that once were and no longer are - allegories of the manipulation that reality is subject to in memories. Her paintings work as metaphors for memory, but function as autonomous beings, independent from the original subject. Sofia Nifora aims to create a visual language where the organic and the artificial, the tangible and the impalpable coexist, giving form to surreal elements of fragmented memories.

Sofia Nifora is a recent MFA graduate of the Royal College of Art in London, UK (2020-2022) and lives between the UK and Greece. Her recent exhibitions include Nostos, Baert Gallery (Los Angeles, 2024, solo); Blue Hour, Phillips (New York, 2024, group); We too have been there, though we shall land no more, ATM Gallery (New York, 2023, solo); Nouvelle Vague, Ibf Contemporary (London, 2024, group); On Abstraction, Cromwell Palace (London, 2023, group); and A New Sensation, Galerie Marguo (Paris, 2023, group). Recent prizes include: NEON Organisation Scholarship Award (2021 and 2020), Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2021).