SOPHIA LOEB

Early Years

Sophia Loeb was born in São Paulo, Brazil in 1997. Moving to London—where she now lives and works—she spent her foundation year at Camberwell College of Art, then studied Fine Art and History of Art at Goldsmiths University of London. During this period she focused on domestic objects, creating distorted sketches, sculptures and collages—she had to return to Brazil during the Covid-19 pandemic, where she continued to produce art in her parents’ home. She studied for her masters at the Royal College of Art and her practice began to focus on observing natural forms instead of man-made objects and using colours that reflected the joy she felt being in nature.

Sophia Loeb: Artworks

Sophia Loeb has said, “My practice embraces the ephemerality of nature and the connection of all living species on Earth,” and her instinctive painting is informed by this meditation, reflecting both the perception of the environment as well as her own thoughts and sensations. Her work also creates a connection between humans and the natural world, asking viewers to consider our own anthropocentric ideas and how we exist on Earth, as well as recognising the multitude of realities that surround us. In a 2023 interview, she described how her work “encourages us to perceive our thoughts as actual structures within our beings”, helping us to “understand the responsibility of carrying our own bodies on earth at this moment in time”.

She works in oils, acrylics, oil sticks and pigments (which she applies by hand), creating landscapes that evoke memories and feelings of her native Brazil. Her paintings are abstract yet her natural forms are recognisable. In a 2026 exhibition, she focused on light and how it creates visibility, using oil sticks to create a pearlescent, almost Neo-Impressionist effect.

• Vozes serenas ecoam sobre a minha existência (Serene voices echo over my existence) (2024) combines vivid reds and warm greens with flashes of bright orange/yellow
• In Ruídos Rubros (Noises in Red, or sometimes Crimson Noises) (2025), Sophia Loeb layers mauve and purple oil paint on aluminium, followed by loose red pigment, which emulates the natural world’s rhythms
• Minha terra tem primores, que tais não encontro eu cá (In my land there are beauties, that I do not encounter here) (2023) is a three-metre canvas where flashes of light intersperse a leaf-like, flowing landscape

Sophia Loeb: Exhibitions

Select Solo Exhibitions

• O Manifesto da Luz antes do Amanhecer (The Manifesto of Light Before Dawn), Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (2026)
• Todos os Seres São de Todos os Seres (All Beings are of All Beings), Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (2023)

Select Group Exhibitions

• Land marks, Pace Gallery, Los Angeles (2025–2026)
• As the Earth Trembles, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (2025)
• Exhibition on the Limits of Form, Museu Inimá de Paula, Belo Horizonte (2025)
• Abstraction (re)creation—20 Under 40, X Museum, Beijing (2025) (originally at Le Consortium, Dijon, 2024)
• Eighteen Painters, Andrew Kreps Gallery, London (2024)

Further Reading

• Sophia Loeb’s Instagram
• Sophia Loeb’s featured artist page at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery
• Next Big Thing: Sophia Loeb, interview with Galerie magazine (2023)
• Sophia Loeb’s featured artist page at the Royal College of Art (2023)
• Interview in Brooklyn to Gangnam magazine (2021)
• In conversation with Sophia Loeb, Where’s the Frame? (2021)

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