Sofia Alrich Veytia

Sofia Alrich Veytia (b.1997) is a visual artist from Mexico City, currently based in London. Her visual and theoretical research investigates the correspondences between spirituality, the natural realm, humanity, and the cosmos, focused on vibration, the spirit, and transcendence as dialogical concepts between these fields. She attempts to make substance of something that in its essence is transient, fleeting, or intangible, through amorphous figures that resemble the microcosm and macrocosm simultaneously.

She mainly works with intaglio printmaking, painting, and video as a means of thinking through an image in various steps, digitally manipulating the source material, dissecting it, and transforming it, wherein each mark diverges from the original source and intertwines with another. Her work experiments with imagery pertaining to nature, exploring the visual parallelisms between the human body and natural life. By abstracting images from the natural world, she seeks to create visual associations that express how our universe is connected in unexpected ways, reflecting on the Hermetic concept of – As above, so below-. Her work delves into the concept of interconnection, recognizing that an awareness of this unity facilitates a deeper resonance with the environment we inhabit.

Sofia graduated in 2023 from an MA in Fine Art: Printmaking at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London, and holds a bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from Universidad Anahuac Mexico, in Mexico City. She has participated in various group exhibitions internationally, the most notable ones being; The Way of All Flesh curated by Delphian Gallery, at Saatchi Gallery Jan 2024. Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2023 showing with Blue Shop Gallery. Other selected exhibitions include; Works On Paper 2024 with Blue Shop Gallery. And You Would Have to Believe it, at Copeland Gallery 2024. MA Fine Art SHOW, in Camberwell College of Arts, July 2023. Synchronized, curated by Dan Howard-Bird, July 2023. Forces of the Small, curated by Peter Suchin, in Filet Space, March 2023. Crudo Art Fair in Gallery El Arenero, Mexico City, February 2022. Open Studio at La Maldita Estampa, Barcelona, Spain, September 2021. Bestiarium at Athens Printmaking Art Centre, Athens Greece, May 2021. Among others. From September to October 2021 she participated in RARO Barcelona, a six-week artist residency working in painting and printmaking at the workshops La Maldita Estampa, and Studio Gargot, in Barcelona, Spain. She is an honorary member of People of Print, an international print community since 2021.

She was awarded the Slaughterhaus Print Award (Studio Prize) 2023, and the Volcanic Editions Editioning Prize 2023, for her work displayed at the MA Fine Art Summer Show at Camberwell College of Arts.