Current Artist in Residence: Sophia Boutsakis
Sophia Boutsakis is an emerging visual artist of Greek and British descent. Born and raised in North Vancouver, she is privileged to live, work, and create as a guest on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.
Her work employs repeated motifs as semiotic tools, transforming symbols into glyphs, arrangements into sentences, and patterns into a distinct visual lexicon. Alluding to architectural elements like railings, fences, and windows, these pieces function as a screen between the viewer and physical space, layers of material, or meaning.
Hearts, diamonds, spirals, bows, butterflies, and flowers evoke themes of love, nurturement, growth, and strength, while gates, fences, and windows suggest transparency, liminality, fragility, neglect, and repair.
Sophia earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (ECUAD) in 2022.
Her recent exhibitions include Mirrored Hearts, a solo show at The Art Shop in 2024, and group exhibitions such as Interplay (2024) and Familiar Faces (2023), also at The Art Shop.
Her work was included in Intermediate States (2022) on Granville Island as part of Capture Photography Festival, and Take The Egg (2022) at ECUAD’s Neighborhood Gallery.
Find out more about Sophia Boutsakis:
Website: sophiaboutsakis.weebly.com
IG: @sophiaboutsakis
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