SOPHIE STONE

SOPHIE STONE
B. 1987 Massachusetts
Lives and works in New York, NY

The work of Sophie Stone highlights transitional moments in time. Textiles are a source of exploration in this body of work, in which each piece is simultaneously a painting and a rug. Existing in a state of functional ambiguity, the work is displayed on the floors, walls, hung as room dividers, and bent into corners. By occupying the space in variation, the rug/painting hybrids present a state of flux. As rugs they invite decay and erosion; when viewed as paintings, the stitchings and weaving stand in for gesture and expression. Stone makes her work in reaction to her surroundings, often times incorporating travel with her search for found material. Rope, slippers, plastic, hammocks, sticks, beads, and bed sheets are incorporated into Stone’s work, creating tension in unexpected ways. Woven plastic mats, manufactured carpets, wooden beads and found textiles are continuously cut, painted over, and restitched. Thick layers of house paint and knotted fabric add a sense of organic breakdown, acting as a physical representation of the passage of time.

Sophie Stone received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (2009). She has been featured in exhibitions at White Columns, Halsey McKay (2022), Safe Gallery, Company Gallery (2019), The Whitney Museum of Art, New York, Nina Johnson, Miami, M+B Los Angeles (all 2018), Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles (solo), Romeo, New York, James Fuentes (all 2017), Johannes Vogt, New York, Del Vaz Projects, Los Angeles, Shoot the Lobster, New York (all 2016), Eli Ping, New York (2013), and Nicole Klagsbrun, New York (2012). Sophie has been written about in Art News, Artforum, Artsy, Frieze Magazine, and Hyperallergic.

EDUCATION

2009 Rhode Island School of Design, BFA Painting

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 Sophie Stone, White Columns, NY, NY
2017 Dusty, The Range, Saguache, CO
2017 Double Faced, Redling Fine Art, Project Space, Los Angeles, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 I Think I'm in Trouble, SARA'S, NY, NY
2024 Bowery Gothic, Jack Chiles, NY, NY
2023 Ariadne's Thread, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
2023 Felix LA, EUROPA, The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel
2022 Saragossa, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2022 Looking Back, The 12th White Columns Annual, White Columns, NY, NY
2020 Family Show, Safe Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 By Our Own Hands, Camayuhs, Atlantia, GA
2019 NADA House, with Safe Gallery, Governor’s Island, NY
2019 Tissue, COMPANY, NY, NY
2018 Curated by CHH: Of Purism, Nina Johnson, Miami, FL
2018 Possessed, Curated by Eckhaus Latta, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY
2018 ANNEX, M+B, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Nick Poe / Sophie Stone, Safe Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017 The Gilded Catalogue, The Sunroom, Richmond, VA
2017 Sleeping on the Skin of a Nightmare, Romeo, NY, NY
2017 The Skies and the Atmosphere Most Luscious, James Fuentes, NY, NY
2016 Mi Casa, Tu Casa, Johannes Vogt, NY, NY
2016 Natures Department, Kodomo, Queens, NY
2016 Open House, Haler Echo, NY, NY
2016 I am Sitting in a Room, Jack Chiles, NY, NY
2016 How to Remove Stains, (two person show w Jessi Reaves), Del Vaz Projects, LA, CA
2016 NO NOTICE, Newtown Creek Barge Park, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Charmed, Shoot the Lobster, NY, NY (curated by Maggie Lee and Tamara Gonzales)
2014 Sense-Data, Shoot the Lobster, NY, NY
2014 Rapid Same Question, Dunham Place, Brooklyn, NY
2013 I Get By, Molasses Books, Brooklyn, NY Bill Post, Eli Ping, NY, NY
2013 Palm Reader, So What Space, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Lol and the Garden of Good and Evil, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Vision Quest, Nicole Klagsbrun, NY, NY
2012 Lunar Notions, Apartment Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Waved Gallery, Jack Chiles, NY, NY Telephone, Horizons, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Warming, 41 Varick, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Mountains and Folds, Mountain Fold Gallery, NY, NY

RESIDENCIES

2017 The Range, Saguache, CO

SELECTED PRESS

2023 Duron, Maximiliano, "The Best Booths at Felix LA"
2019 Jow, Tiffany, “Community Page”, Surface Magazine, Winter Issue
2018 Fixsen, Anna, “Shop Talk: Making Sense of Eckhaus Latta at the Whitney”, August 17
2017 Moffit, Evan, “Waste Land”, Frieze Magazine, March Issue
2016 Piejko, Jennifer, “Critics Pick, Jessi Reaves and Sophie Stone”, Artforum,
2016 Kim, Hyunjee Nicole, “An Exhibit Inspired by Interior Design Asks You to Take a
Seat, Hyperallergic, April 6