Sofía Clausse (b. 1989, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a multidisciplinary artist based in London, UK. She completed her BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design (2014), and the postgraduate program in Fine Arts at the Royal Academy Schools in London (2022). Following her graduation show at the Royal Academy of Arts, Clausse was awarded the Almacantar Art Prize providing her with a free studio in London for a year. Most recently, she was selected for an artist grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2023).
Clausse’s thinking is guided by textile logic and a circular use of material. Her work is influenced by the history of Latin American weaving and concrete poetry, as well as systemic and generative processes. All of which she employs, creating a visual cosmos that explores what it means to belong and become while constantly changing.
Her practice is a research into cycles, time, repetition, language, lines and transformation; using painting, paper, text and ceramics. Custom tools and systems are continuously invented to create an ongoing visual lexicon that collapses the distinction between semantics and semiotics—symbols and meanings endlessly contain each other. Elements interweave and extend like a labyrinthic path across the practice, and what was discovered or what remains of one piece informs and transforms into the next.
Clausse’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Slugtown Gallery, Newcastle, UK (2022); Eve Leibe Gallery, London (2021); and Kupfer, curated by Inês Geraldes Cardoso, London (2021). She has exhibited in group shows in the UK and US including: Where's the Frame, London (2022); Grove Collective, London (2021); Guts Gallery, London (2021); Royal Academy of Arts, London (2020); Eve Leibe Gallery (2020); Nationale Gallery, Portland, OR (2020); Special Special Gallery, New York, NY (2020); Koppel Project Exchange, London (2020); The Shop at Sadie Coles HQ, London (2019); Ginny Projects, London (2019). Upcoming, Clausse will take part in a two-month residency at PADA Studios in Lisbon, Portugal (2023).