Sophie Barbasch is an artist based in New York. She has been awarded a Fulbright Research Fellowship to Brazil and a NYSCA / NYFA Fellowship in photography and has participated in residencies at Light Work, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, MASS MoCA, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and NARS Foundation. Selected publications include The New York Times, The New Yorker,Artsy, and Hyperallergic, and her writing on photography has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail. Her work is held in various collections, including the Smithsonian Museum of American History and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art. Penumbra Foundation published her first monograph, Obras, which was included on the list of best photobooks of 2022 by Photobookstore, LensCulture, Deadbeat Club and Nowhere Diary and featured as photobook of the month at the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation. She has exhibited internationally and has been nominated twice for the Prix Pictet. She holds a BA in Art and Art History from Brown University and an MFA in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design.
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