Born:

London, UK, 1980

Lives and works:

Chicago, IL/ Brooklyn, NY

Education:

2001 BA (Hons) Fine Art/Art History, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK

2003 Graduate Certificate, (Transdicisplinary Program), Spatial Information Architecture, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

Fellowships

2011 NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts) Digital/Electronic Arts Fellow

Residencies:

Studio Artist, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, 2003-5

Australia Council Tokyo Studio Residency, June-August 2008

EMPAC (Experimental Media & Performing Arts Centre), Rensselaer Polytechnic, NY, January 2009

Art/Science residency at Mothers & Babies Research Center, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, Australia, March 2009

Selected Exhibitions:

2010

New media art show, Last Supper Festival (curated by Blue Box Gallery), 3rd Ward, New York City

The Armory Show, VSA Arts, New York City

Japan Media Arts Festival, National Art Center, Tokyo

Revealing Culture, Smithsonian International Gallery, Washington DC

2009

The Armory Show, VSA Arts, New York City

Trace Elements: spirit and memory in Japanese & Australian Photomedia, Performance Space, Sydney

William & Winifred Bowness Photography Prize Shortlist, Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne

Offerings, Space 414, Brooklyn, New York City

2008

Trace Elements: spirit and memory in Japanese & Australian Photomedia, Tokyo City Opera Gallery, Tokyo

Australie: Mythe et Realité, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris

Derivative Composition, Kennedy Center, Washington DC

2006

Sophie Kahn, Martine Corompt, Van Sowerwine, Stills Gallery, Sydney

Bitmap International Digital Photography Project, Loop Alternative Art Space, Seoul

The Waxen and the Flesh, Spacement Gallery, Melbourne (solo)

Greetings, Ocular Lab, Melbourne

2005

Strange to Inhabit the Earth No Longer, Spacement Gallery, Melbourne (solo)

A Short Ride in A Fast Machine, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces (Studio 6), Melbourne

Through a Stranger’s Eyes – Australian photographers, Designfesta, Tokyo/Arts Aporia, Osaka

2004

Graphite digital art exhibition, Graphite conference 2004, Singapore

Contemporary Collection Benefactors Auction, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize Shortlist, Sydney

Gertrude Studios 2004, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne

2003

Panorama, 24seven (solo)

Reconstruction, Studio 12, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces and Collingwood Town Hall, Melbourne (solo)

Gertrude Studios 2003, Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne

2002

Luminosity, Linden – St Kilda Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia (solo)

Transparency, West Space (solo)

The Arcade Project, Ivy Hopes and Cathedral Arcade, Nicholas Building, Melbourne (solo)

Festivals & screenings:

Frameworks, Dance New Amsterdam, New York, 2011

International Video Dance Festival of Burgundy, France, 2010

Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo, 2010

DANSCAMDANSE, Ghent, Belgium 2009

Dance Movies 2009, EMPAC, 2009

Awards:

William & Winifred Bowness Photography Prize Shortlist, 2009

Wynn Newhouse Award Shortlist, 2009

Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize Shortlist, Sydney, 2004

Collections:

Sophie’s work is held in private collections in Britain, the US and Australia

Funding:

Sophie’s work has been supported by a number of bodies, including the Australian Network for Art & Technology; The City of Yarra, Melbourne, Australia; the Briar Art Trust & the Australia Council for the Arts.

Bibliography:

H+ Magazine, Profile by Chris Grayson, August 2009: full text

Time Slips in Another Place, Review by Gail Priest, Realtime 88, December-January 2009: full text

Found in Translation: Australian Art in Tokyo, Interview with Ashley Crawford, Photofile 85 (Australian Centre for Photography),

Indecisive Moments, Review by Ashley Rawlings, Japan Times, August 28, 2008: full text

Artistic Movement,  Review by Stephanie Merry, Washington Post online edition, June 27 2008

Life Focus, profile by Tess Hewson, JMag February 2006

Review by Tracey Clement, Metro Sydney, March 10-16 2006

Invisible Corporeal, essay by Jeff Khan for Spacement exhibition, 2006

‘Between Magic & Reality’, Review by Robert McFarlane, Sydney Morning Herald, February 21, 2006

Essay by Alexie Glass for Bitmap exhibition, 2006

Sunday Age, Preview, August 1, 2005

Review by Darren Tofts, Photofile 76 (Australian Centre for Photography), November 2005