ARTIST PROFILE

Sophie Dvořák

  • Austria (b. 1978 in Vienna)
  • Currently in Vienna, Austria.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2014

  • Aa–Zy - The Poetics of the Encycolpaedic Image, MUSA, Vienna, Austria.

2011

  • Of Other Spaces, Enjoy the Crisis, Enschede, Netherlands.

2010

  • Sophie Dvořák-Graphic Works, Galerie Hartmann, Vienna, Austria.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016

  • Stadt-Land, Galerie3, Klagenfurt, Austria.

2015

  • Multiplikation und Reduktion, Galerie Traklhaus, Salzburg, Austria.
  • The As-If-Principle, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria.
  • Import/Export, mo.e contemporary / Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria.

2014

  • Walk a Mile in my Shoes, flat1, Vienna, Austria.
  • The Unwritten: Highlights in Emerging Painting , mo.e contemporary, Vienna, Austria.
  • Inattentional Blindness, Galeri Zilberman, Istanbul, Turkey.

LOCATION

  • Born 1978 in Vienna, Austria.
  • Lives and works in Vienna, Austria.

EDUCATION

  • 2006 - 2007
    Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, United Kingdom
    Erasmus exchange in Photography
  • 2004 - 2008
    Academy of FIne Arts Vienna, Vienna, Austria
    Master of Fine Arts in
  • 2004 - 2005
    Schule für künstlerische Fotografie, Vienna, Austria
    Diploma in Photography (Friedl Kubelka)

AWARDS & GRANTS

  • 2016
    Promotion Award / Förderungspreis der Stadt Wien
    Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien, Vienna, Austria
  • 2016
    Nominee for the STRABAG ArtAward
    STRABAG, Vienna, Austria
  • 2013
    Honorary mention at the 9ème Biennale Internationale de Gravure Contemporaine
    Musée des Beaux-Arts de Liège, Liège, Belgium
  • 2013
    STARTStipendium
    Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture, Vienna, Austria
  • 2012
    Theodor Körner Preis
    Theodor Körner Fonds, Vienna, Austria
  • 2008
    1st Prize at the XVth International Triennale for Graphic Arts
    Kunstverein Frechen, Frechen, Germany

RESIDENCIES

  • 2014
    Studienaufenthalt | Stipend granted by the City of Vienna, Budapest Galeria, Budapest, Hungary
  • 2011
    Auslandsatelierstipendium, granted by the bmu:kk, SWJT University Chengdu, Chengdu, China
  • 2011
    Artist Residencies Enschede, ARE, Enschede, Netherlands