SOFYA BELINSKAYA

Sofya Belinskaya is a Ukrainian-American visual artist who weaves elements of the body, landscape, and architecture into ephemeral paintings. Looking through the lens of immigrant experience, she examines how displacement, loss, and recollection shape the stories we tell about shifting places and identities. She reimagines personal and social histories, while engaging the fragmented nature of memory and impermanence of being.

Sofya received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University in 2011. In 2024, her painting and oral-histories project ‘Of Bread and Salt’ was exhibited at Gallery 4Culture, Seattle supported by an Arts Projects grant from 4Culture, 2022. Selected recent exhibitions include a solo show, ‘it becomes a mountain’ at SOIL Artist-Run Gallery, 2025, and group shows at the Behnke Family Gallery, Cornish College of the Art, Seattle, Carnation Gallery, Portland, Mini Mart City Park, Seattle, and Actualize AIR, Seattle. She was a 2024 Neddy Artist Award Painting finalist, and she has received grants from Artist Trust, Northwest Film Forum, and Seattle Office of Arts and Culture. Sofya was an artist-in-residence at AqTushetii in Omalo, Georgia 2024, and at Mineral School in Mineral, WA in 2025. Sofya is a teaching artist in painting and drawing, and has previously taught at Pratt Fine Arts Center, Gage Academy of Art, and Open Arts, Meta.

photo credit: Hanna Dolzhenkova

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