Draft:Sophia Loeb

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Sophia Loeb
Born	1997 (age 28–29) São Paulo, Brazil
Education	Goldsmiths, University of London; Royal College of Art
Occupation	Painter
Notable work	Held in the collections of the Albertina, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, the Toledo Museum of Art, and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, among others

Sophia Loeb (born 1997) is a Brazilian painter based in London, England.

Early life and education

Loeb was born in 1997 in São Paulo, Brazil. She moved to the United Kingdom at 18 to complete a foundation year at Camberwell College of Arts, before earning a BA in Fine Art and History of Art at Goldsmiths, University of London and an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in London.

Career

Loeb has had solo exhibitions with Pippy Houldsworth Gallery in London, including Todos os Seres são de Todos os Seres (All Beings are of All Beings) (2023) and O Manifesto da Luz antes do Amanhecer (The Manifesto of Light Before Dawn) (2026), and with Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel in Rio de Janeiro, including Panta Rei sobre a Estrata (2025). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at venues including Pace Gallery in Los Angeles, Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York, and a touring exhibition presented at Le Consortium in Dijon and the X Museum in Beijing. She has undertaken residencies at the School of Visual Arts in New York and Kaaysa Arte Residência in São Paulo.

Work

Loeb takes a sculptural approach to painting, building layered compositions in oil, acrylic, oil stick, and hand-applied pigment, which she scrapes, reworks, and reapplies to build a dense, tactile surface. She works on her canvases from multiple angles, rotating and tilting them as she paints, a process she has described as recording her own bodily movement. Her resulting paintings are abstract landscapes that draw on her childhood in Brazil, exploring the interconnectedness of natural and universal systems.

Critical reception

Writing in Galerie Magazine, a critic described Loeb's paintings as radiant and otherworldly, calling for a harmonious relationship between humankind and nature. In a 2026 interview with Ocula, Loeb discussed her use of fog and light as recurring subjects, describing her fascination with the way light travels and is perceived. Profiling the artist for W Magazine in 2026, a writer described her hyper-contemporary impressionist style and thick, impasto layers as having become her calling card since she first gained wider attention several years earlier.

Collections

Loeb's work is held in public and private collections including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; the Albertina, Vienna; the Toledo Museum of Art; the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas; the Rachofsky Collection, Dallas; the Shah Garg Foundation, New York; the Museu Inimá de Paula, Belo Horizonte; and the Olivia Foundation, Mexico City.

Selected solo exhibitions

• 2026 – O Manifesto da Luz antes do Amanhecer (The Manifesto of Light Before Dawn), Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
• 2025 – Panta Rei sobre a Estrata, Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel, Rio de Janeiro
• 2023 – Todos os Seres são de Todos os Seres (All Beings are of All Beings), Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London

Selected group exhibitions

• 2025–2026 – land marks, Pace Gallery, Los Angeles
• 2025 – As the Earth Trembles, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
• 2024–2025 – Le Consortium, Dijon, travelling to X Museum, Beijing
• 2024 – Eighteen Painters, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
• 2024 – Between Us, Olivia Foundation, Mexico City

External links

• Sophia Loeb at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery
• Sophia Loeb on Artsy

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• 1997 births
• Living people
• Brazilian painters
• People from São Paulo
• Goldsmiths, University of London alumni
• Royal College of Art alumni