Sophie Kitching, a French-British artist born on the Isle of Wight and based in New York City, creates paintings, installations and sculptures that encapsulate natural phenomena, reacting to her environment through found materials, colors, and forms. Merging nature and architecture, her work explores landscape as an active medium, intertwining territory and memory. Committed to producing spaces rather than images, Sophie Kitching’s compositions draw the viewer into a negotiation with space and depth, the seen and unseen, alternating between gestural brushstrokes, and raw material structure, where different realities coincide.
Sophie Kitching graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2014 and studied at the School of Visual Arts, New York in Fine Arts in 2012. Alongside numerous exhibitions across the world, she has received awards, participated in residencies in France and the US, published a monographic catalogue, “Nuits Américaines” with Lienart in 2017, and was featured in “The Taste of Studio Jeppe Hein” published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König in 2024, as well as in “Picasso et les Contemporains”, a catalogue published by Musée de Vence in 2018, and has received international press coverage (AD, Le Figaro, Vogue Scandinavia, Elle Decoration UK, Whitewall, Crash Magazine, Forbes, L’Officiel, Artpress, Elle Decoration UK, Numero, Town & Country, Art Observed, Point Contemporain, Citizen K…). In 2017, Sophie Kitching designed sets for Kader Bélarbi’s ballet production “Don Quichotte” at the Opéra National du Capitole in Toulouse. In 2018-2022, she was awarded a studio residency as part of Painting Space 122 in New York City. Sophie Kitching has recently collaborated with the oldest Champagne brand House of Ruinart during Frieze NY 2022 in the exhibition “Maison 1729” and created a series of Second Skin Magnum bottles. In 2023, she was invited by the Italian Jewelry brand BVLGARI as their US-based artist to create a capsule collection to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of their “Serpenti” icon.
Recent exhibitions include Polychroma (2024) at Galerie Isabelle Gounod, Paris; Bergforf Goodman New York, Veronese Paris and Studio Chloé Nègre Paris with The Spaceless Gallery (2024); Landscape at Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen (2024), Sight Specific (2023) at Cromwell Place, London with The Finch Project; Serpenti in Art (2023) at BVLGARI on 5th Avenue in New York City to launch the capsule collection; Nocturne (2023) at 3A Gallery, New York (the Gallery founded by artists Dan Graham and Mieko Meguro); De Leur Temps VII (2023), at Frac Grand Large – Hauts-de-France, Dunkirk; Trois à Part (2023) at Nosbaum Reding in Brussels; touch of time (2022) at Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen; Degrees, Minutes, and Seconds (2022) at The Finch Project, London; Maison 1729 (2022) in collaboration with House of Ruinart during Frieze Art Fair, New York; The English Garden (2022) at Galerie Isabelle Gounod, Paris; i set my face to the hillside (2022) at PS122 Gallery, New York; carte blanche (2021) at Park Hyatt, New York; ATLAS (2021) at 187 Lafayette St., New York; Window Series (2019) at Kiosk in Le Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse, Marseille; Invisible Green (2019) at Galerie Vaste Horizon, Arles; Concrete Blooms at Kenzo Marais (2019); Nuits Américaines (2017-2018) at Maison de Chateaubriand, Châtenay-Malabry to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of Chateaubriand’s birth; Appareiller (2017) at Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Bourse Révélations Emerige (2016) at Villa Emerige, Paris.
For any enquiry, please email: sk@sophiekitching.com.
Representation in France:
Galerie Isabelle Gounod
13 rue Chapon, 75003 Paris
contact@galerie-gounod.fr
www.galerie-gounod.com
Representation in Denmark:
Alice Folker Gallery
Esplanaden 14, st. th, 1263 Copenhagen
gallery@alicefolker.dk
www.alicefolker.dk
Representation in England:
The Finch Project
4 Cromwell Place, South Kensington, London SW7 2JE
info@thefinchproject.com
www.thefinchproject.com