Artist Statement/ Biography

Sophie Sabet is a visual artist working in video, film, sculpture and installation. Her work explores different microcosms as a way of understanding societal relationality and structures of dominance. She approaches sites of tension through intimate and nonlinear methodologies to offer new ways of being and thinking.

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Sabet received her MFA in Documentary Media Studies at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada in 2016. Her work has been shown across Canada with recent solo exhibitions at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery in 2020 and Bradley Museum in 2019 where she was awarded the Gattuso Prize for outstanding featured exhibition at the CONTACT Photography festival. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Gallery 1C03, Gallery 44 and Trinity Square Video. More recently Sabet completed a residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Nebraska, Omaha during the summer of 2022 and exhibited a solo show at Modern Fuel in January of 2023. < BACK