Sophie Kitching (b. 1990, UK, lives and works in NYC) graduated from École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, and School of Visual Arts, New York. Kitching works with installations, paintings, sculptures, and works on paper. With a poetic exploration of environment and natural phenomena, Sophie Kitching works with paintings, sculptures, installations, and works on paper, intertwining nature and architecture, territory and memory. Through an alluring and inviting materiality, she creates atmospheres of both utopic otherworldliness and a grounded familiarity for the viewer to enter.
Kitching has had solo shows at Alice Folker Gallery, Copenhagen (2025 and 2022); BVLGARI on 5th Avenue, New York (2024); Isabelle Gounod Gallery, Paris (2024, 2022 and 2019); The Finch Project, London (2024 and 2023); 3A Gallery, New York (2023); Studio 525, New York with Maison Ruinart (2022); Park Hyatt, New York (2021); Kiosk in Le Corbusier's Cité Radieuse, Marseille (2019) and Galerie Vaste Horizon, Arles (2019). Some of her group exhibitions include The Spaceless Gallery, New York (2025), Messums West, UK (2025); Bergforf Goodman, New York (2024); C1760, New York (2023); Nosbaum Reding, Brussels (2023); FRAC Grand Large - Hauts de France, Dunkirk (2023); PS122 Gallery, New York (2022 and 2019); KENZO Marais, Paris (2019) and Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2017).
Sophie Kitching has been featured in The Taste of Studio Jeppe Hein published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König in 2024, and in Picasso et les Contemporains, a catalogue by Musée de Vence in 2018. In 2018-2022, she was awarded a studio residency at Painting Space 122 in New York City. In 2017, she inaugurated the artist residency program at Maison de Chateaubriand in Châtenay-Malabry and published her monographic catalogue Nuits Américaines with Lienart to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of Chateaubriand's birth. She also created sets for Kader Belarbi's Ballet Don Quichotte which premiered at Opéra national du Capitole in Toulouse in 2017. In 2016, Sophie Kitching was nominated for the 'Bourse Révélations Emerige' in Paris. Sophie Kitching has collaborated with the oldest Champagne brand Maison Ruinart in 2022 during Frieze New York and hand painted a series of unique Second Skin Magnum bottles. In 2023, she created two limited-edition Serpenti Forever Handbags in collaboration with the Italian Jewelry brand BVLGARI to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of their Serpenti icon. In 2024, Sophie Kitching created a site-specific gold-leaf installation in Ruinart's new pavilion in Reims designed by Sou Fugimoto and entered their permanent collection. Her works can be found in collections including Art Observed in New York, Maison Ruinart in Reims, Daniel Humm in New York, and Library of EnsAD in Paris.