Sofia Yala

GO BACK

Newsletter

Sign up to receive email updates on the artists, exhibitions and news from our gallery.

Formulário submetido com sucesso.

By submitting this information, you agree to the Terms and Conditions of the website.

Sofia Yala

1994, Lisbon (PT).

Angolan/Portuguese visual artist, lives and works in London (UK).

Images

Biography

Education

2020 - 2021

MA in Film and Photography. University of Derby, Derby (UK).

2017 - 2020

MA in Anthropology and Visual Cultures. NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Lisbon (PT).

2012 - 2015

BA in African Studies. University of Lisbon, Lisbon (PT).

Solo Exhibitions

2026

Constellation of Dust. Lehmann Projects, Porto (PT).

2022

Fragments of My Journey. Nadir Project Space, Photo Fringe, Brighton (UK).

As Looking For The Right Channel. EGEU, Lisbon (PT).

Selected group exhibitions

2025

Emotional Encounters. Curated by Elina Heikka, Imago Fest, MNAC, Lisbon (PT).
Presence of the Past – A European Album. Curated by Simina Bădică, Stéphanie Gonçalves and Andrea Mork, House of European History, Brussels (BE).
Diasporic Life: A Lingua Franca of Black Aliveness. Metro54, Amsterdam (NL).
What the Body Has Already Forgotten. Curated by Ângela Ferreira, NF Gallery / NIEVES FERNÁNDEZ, Madrid (ES).

2024

How to Reverse a Spell. Curated by Paula Nascimento, Lehmann, Porto (PT).
Encontros da Imagem — International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts, Braga (PT).
Mirrors, Windows, Portals. Curated by Assunta Ruocco and Alison Lloyd, Project Space Plus, University of Lincoln, Lincoln (UK).
Que Mar se Vê Afinal da Minha Língua. Organised by BABEL Cultural Association, Casa Garden, Macau (MO) and Centro Cultural do Mindelo, São Vicente (CV).

2023

Que Mar se Vê Afinal da Minha Língua. Organised by BABEL Cultural Association, Armazém das Artes & Central-Periférica, Alcobaça (PT).

Big Mama Thornton. Gallery Nosco, at 1-54 Fair, London (UK).
PHOTO50: Beautiful Experiments. Curated by Pelumi Odubanjo and Katy Barron, LAF, London (UK).

2022

13th Bamako Encounters – African Biennale of Photography. Bamako (ML).

(IM)MATERIALITY. This Is Not a White Cube, ARCOLisboa, Lisbon (PT).
Our (Spatial) Stories Live in Performative Futures. Curated by Cindy Sissokho and Fabian Villegas, Hangar, Lisbon (PT).

2021

A Mecânica do Efémero. Filomena Soares Gallery, Lisbon (PT).
Visage(s) d’Europe(s), Paris (FR).
Circulation(s) Festival, Paris (FR).

Awards

2023

Stills FORMAT Award. Stills, Edinburgh (UK).

2022

Danny Wilson Memorial Award. Photo Fringe, Brighton, (UK).

2021 - 2022

Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) Award. Arts Council England (UK).

Residences

2024

LE 18 × Hangar — “Residencies in Transit”. Marrakech (MA).

2023

NESR Art Foundation — 5th Edition. Luanda (AO).
Amplify Project — FORMAT23 Commission. Derby (UK).

2021

New Art Exchange — “4UBU”. Nottingham (UK).
Hangar — From a Distance Calling. Lisbon (PT).

2019

Collective Pés Descalços — LUUANDA. Luanda (AO).

2018

AOJE — Cachupa Factory. Mindelo (CV).

Main Collections

FLAD - Luso-American Development Foundation (PT).

House of European History (BE).

Frédéric de Goldschmidt Collection (BE).

Various

PUBLICATIONS

2023

The Thing. Photoworks Annual. ISSN 1742-1659. N.º 29

2022

YALA, Sofia – The Body as an Archive (20/21). Umbigo Magazine. ISSN 1645-7315. No. 81 (June 2022).

2021

Foam Magazine. ISSN 1570-4874. No. 59 (2021). Histories – The Archival Issue.

The Eyes. ISSN 2269-0832. No. 12 (2021). B-Side issue.

2020

Imagens & Arquivos. Lisbon: ICS–ULisboa; Coimbra: Photo Impulse Project, 2021. ISBN 978-972-671-655-6.

TALKS & ART EDUCATION

2024

Artist Talk, BA Photography. London College of Communication, London (UK).

2023

EPQ Sixth Form Mentor. The Photographers’ Gallery, London (UK).

Annual Photography Awards Jury. International.
Workshop Facilitator, Collage Comparison Symposium. University of Oxford, Oxford (UK).
In Conversation Facilitator, FORMAT23 (with Debbie Cooper on the Winters Archive). Derby (UK).
Artist Facilitator, School in Residence Programme. Derby Moor Academy & Cavendish, Derby (UK).
Research Seminar Speaker. University of Oxford, Oxford (UK).

2022

Portfolio Reviewer, BA Photography (Third Year). University of the Arts London, London (UK).

2021

Workshop Facilitator, New Art Exchange, Nottingham (UK).
Online Workshop Facilitator, New Art Exchange, Nottingham (UK).
Online Workshop Facilitator, Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto (PT).

Writings

Loading . . .

close

previous

next

close

previous

next

CLOSE

PREVIOUS

next

Sofia Yala

CLOSE

PREVIOUS

next

CLOSE

PREVIOUS

next

lehmanncontemporary.com desenvolvido por Bondhabits. Agência de marketing digital e desenvolvimento de websites e desenvolvimento de apps mobile