Sophie Seita

Sophie Seita is a London-based artist and researcher whose practice is grounded in writing and performance but swerves voraciously into other mediums, such as sound, video, textiles, drawing, and installation. She explores the machinations, possibilities, and politics of aesthetic form and operates under a type of queer abstraction which signals a commitment to a new grammar of relationality. Always leaning into or pushing back against the many voices that surround us, her practice is informed by deep listening, opacity, and a playfulness that’s both rigorous and pleasurable. 

Recent exhibitions, performances, talks, and workshops have found a home at Matt’s Gallery, Mimosa House, Café Oto, UP Projects, Flat Time House (all London), Rupert (Vilnius), Nottingham Contemporary, Index (Stockholm), Grand Union (Birmingham), Ruta del Castor (Mexico City), Kunsthalle Darmstadt, diffrakt (Berlin), Darlington Library, and elsewhere.

Often working with others across disciplines, she’s expanding and deepening her ongoing intersectional queer collaboration with the musician and conductor Naomi Woo, to give voice to untold marginalised archives, alongside other international artists, academics, activists, gardeners, designers, and writers, as part of The Hildegard von Bingen Society for Gardening Companions.

She’s received grants and awards from Arts Council England, the Canada Council, British Council, DAAD, Creative Scotland, amongst others. In 2022, she was a Dorothea Schlegel Artist in Residence at Freie Universität Berlin, and in 2023 was a Visiting Artist at Brown University.

Sophie teaches in the Art Department at Goldsmiths, University of London, and currently holds the 2023-2024 Werner Düttmann Fellowship at Akademie der Künste, Berlin, where she is developing a series of graphic scores, textiles, and sound pieces. Her latest book is the experimental essay collection Lessons of Decal (87Press, 2023), a queer meditation on reading and listening, on the things and experiences that leave an imprint on us in unpredictable, messy, and desirous ways.