Sofía Ortega is a Venezuelan artist based in Paris. She studied Graphic Design at L’Institut Supérieur d’Arts Appliqués (LISAA) before completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Paris College of Art. Her multidisciplinary practice encompasses painting, drawing, photography, installation, video, and sound. Working primarily with liquid color field painting and graphite drawing, Sofía explores how images emerge through material processes, dreams, active imagination, and perception.

In her paintings, liquid pigment is poured onto raw canvas, organic cotton, and bedsheets, where it spreads, pools, and absorbs into the textile. Forms arise through the interaction of gravity, diffusion, chance, and gesture, allowing the material itself to participate in the development of the image. Guided by restraint, the paintings remain open and sparse, inhabiting a space between formation and dissolution as images gradually emerge through the behavior of the material.

Her graphite drawings originate in dreams, active imagination, intuition, and unconscious associations. Through gradual tonal accumulation and sustained mark-making, figures, vessels, insects, bodily fragments, and other recurring forms emerge within indeterminate spaces. Occupying a threshold between recognition and uncertainty, these images carry traces of inner experience into visible form, unfolding through sustained attention.

Across mediums, Sofía investigates the emergence and transformation of images and the relationship between inner experience and the material world. Recurring motifs of metamorphosis, embodiment, and permeability appear throughout her practice as forms transform through encounters between matter, perception, and imagination.

---

Education

2019               Graphic Design Bachelor
                         L’institut Supérieur des Arts Appliqués,
                         Paris, France

2022               Bachelor of Fine Arts
                         Paris College of Art, Paris, France


Group Exhibitions
2025               Eidos, Senior Degree Show
                         Bastille Design Center            
                         Paris, France

                         Unfazed: Glitter, Harposphere
                         Curated by Léa Onno Etchena
                         Paris, France

2024               Brief Shalimar
                         Paris, France

                         Unfazed I
                         Curated by Léa Onno Echetna
                         Paris, France


Solo Exhibitions


2026               Finite Transcendence, Moving Studio      
                         Akron, United States