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BiographySofia Mistola, Courtesy of the artist and Pilar Corrias Gallery, Photo by Mark Blower.Sofia Mitsola (b. 1992, Thessaloniki, Greece) is a London-based artist working primarily in painting. Her work explores the female form through bold, larger-than-life figures inspired by ancient Greek and Egyptian sculpture, mythology, Japanese animation and pornography. Set against geometric, stage-like backgrounds in vibrant, flat colors, her nude characters confront the viewer with a direct gaze, engaging with themes of voyeurism, power and control.Mitsola holds an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art (2018) and a BA from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2015). She quickly gained international recognition, receiving awards such as the British Institution Student Award from the Royal Academy of Arts and the Tiffany & Co. x Outset Studiomakers Prize in 2018.Recent solo exhibitions include: Pilar Corrias, London, UK (2024, 2021, 2020); Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, CH (2023); The Portland Collection, The Harley Gallery, Welbeck, Nottinghamshire, UK (2022) ; Jerwood Solo Presentations, Jerwood Space, London, UK (2019). Mitsola’s works belong to the collections of the UCL Art Museum, London (UK) ; Jerwood Collection, London, UK ; X Museum, Beijing, CN ; Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, CN ; K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong, HK ; Pérez Art Museum Collection, Miami, USA amongst others.
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Sofia Mitsola Greek, b. 1992
Eclipse, 2025Oil on linen
190 x 220 cm
74.8 x 86.61 inCopyright The ArtistSofia Mitsola works within paintings in which she investigates the female form. Her invented characters are informed by ancient Greek and Egyptian sculptures, usually depictions of goddesses or mythical creatures....Sofia Mitsola works within paintings in which she investigates the female form. Her invented characters are informed by ancient Greek and Egyptian sculptures, usually depictions of goddesses or mythical creatures. These are set in simple geometric backgrounds with intensely bright and almost flat colours and are depicted naked and larger than human scale. Through them, she is playing with ideas about voyeurism, confrontation, and power. With references from mythology, Japanese animation, and pornography she shows her figures longing, fantasying, touching themselves and glowing. The motifs of sphinxes and medusas have now become a background supportive system that protect her figures, taking the form of intertwined hair, snakes, and feline tails.
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