Sofya Belinskaya

Sofya Belinskaya (b. 1989 Donetsk, Ukraine) is Ukrainian-American artist living in Seattle, WA. Her creative practice is rooted in painting and drawing, and inspired by memory, place, and beauty. She received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, Boston in 2011. Her work has been exhibited regionally, with group and solo exhibitions including at Linda Hodges Gallery, Bellevue Art Museum, and Gray Sky Gallery. 

From 2013-2017, she was a founding member of Lion’s Main Art Collective, a multi-disciplinary queer and trans arts collective, who created installations for Henry Art Gallery, and SAM’s ‘Art in the Park’ program, King Street Station. She is a teaching artist, who’s taught multimedia classes and workshops, with a focus in painting and drawing at Pratt Fine Arts Center, Gage Academy of Art, Meta Open Arts, and Amazon.

Sofya Belinskaya creates magical-realist works that explore ideas of home, place, and memory through an immigrant lens. She makes paintings and drawings of fractured landscapes where architectural, figurative and floral elements merge. Inspired by Ukrainian and Russian history, Soviet-era architecture, family relics, folklore and personal narratives, she blends disparate visual references to create fragmented spaces. At the core of her work is the question: how do we remember places when we can’t return?

Website / http://sofyabelinskaya.com/