Sophie Kitching (b. 1990, Isle of Wight, UK) graduated from École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (2014), and was awarded an international grant to study at the School of Visual Arts, New York. In 2016, she was nominated for the ‘Bourse Révélations Emerige’ in Paris. In 2017, she inaugurated the artist residency at Maison de Chateaubriand in Châtenay-Malabry, and Lienart published her first monographic catalogue “Nuits Américaines”. The same year, she created sets for Kader Belarbi’s Ballet “Don Quichotte” at Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse. In 2018-2022, she was awarded a Studio residency as part of Painting Space 122 in New York. During Frieze NY this year, Sophie Kitching exhibited at House of Ruinart’s “Maison 1729” and created a limited-edition of Second Skin Magnums.
Sophie Kitching has exhibited internationally with solo and group shows in Paris at Palais de Tokyo, Villa Emerige, Maison de Chateaubriand, Galerie Isabelle Gounod, Kenzo Marais, Drawing NOW, Bienvenue Art Fair, Centquatre, National Library of France ; in New York at House of Ruinart x Frieze, PS122 Gallery, Pioneer Works, Park Hyatt NY, WantedDesign 2016; in Copenhagen at Alice Folker Gallery and Enter Art Fair; in Marseille at Kiosk in Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation and Double-V-Gallery; in Berlin at Studio Jeppe Hein; in Torre, Switzerland at Fondazione La Fabbrica del Cioccolato; at ArtVilnius in Lithuania with Bubenberg; in Toronto as part of NXNE Art.