CV | Sophie Lvoff

Born in New York, NY, 1986
Lives and works Marseille, Fr. & NYC

Professor of photography & editions at École supérieure des beaux-arts de Nîmes

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Education

2017-2019 Post-diplôme, ENSBA, Lyon, France
2015 Curatorial Training Program, Ecole du Magasin, Grenoble, France
2013 MFA Studio Arts, Tulane University, New Orleans
2008 BFA Photography & Imaging / Philosophy, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University

Solo Exhibitions

2018 La Avion, Le Réfectoire de Nonnes, ENSBA, Lyon, FR
2013 Hell’s Bells/Sulfur/Honey, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2013 Hell’s Bells/Sulfur/Honey, Carroll Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

Curated Exhibitions

2015 Take You There Radio, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France
2014 Exposition de Noël, Ancien musée de peinture, Grenoble, France
2014 oui-aaa.tumblr.com/galerieshowcase, AAA, Grenoble, France
2013 Patrick Duncan, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2013 Friday the 13th, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2011 Grant v. Lee, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2009 SACROSANCT, St. John’s Church, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

2016 In Place: Contemporary Photographers Envision a Museum, Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT
2016 Pictures of Us: Photographs from the Do Good Fund Collection, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2016 Emotional Signs, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2015 ALLGOLD Commencement, MoMA PS1
2015 Lorem Ipsum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
2015 Infiltrations, Centre d’art Bastille, Grenoble, FR
2015 The Rising, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
2014 Cascade, Esad • Grenoble • Valence, France
2014 Prospect.3: Notes for Now, curated by Franklin Sirmans, New Orleans, LA
2014 The Take-Over, Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY
2014 New Orleans in Photographs, The Multi-Media Museum Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, RU
2014 Live Amateurs, curated by Craig Drennen, MINT Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2014 The National: Best Contemporary Photography 2014, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
2013 Scenes from the South, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Her Infinite Variety, Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2013 reGeneration2, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
2013 reGeneration2, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
2013 reGeneration2, Devos Art Museum, Marquette, MI
2013 We’re Pregnant, Antenna Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2013 In Unison, Get This! Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2012 Looking at the Land curated by Andy Adams of Flak Photo (online exhibition)
2012 Rendez-Vous 12, Iziko South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
2012 That Passes Between Us: Lana Čmajčanin, Jim Finn,Ivan Grubanov, Sophie Lvoff, Maha Maamoun, Marko Peljhan, Ahmet Öğüt and Nebojša Šerić Shoba, curated by Lala Rascic, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2012 Spaces: Antenna, The Front, Good Children, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
2011 NOLA NOW, Part 1, curated by Amy Mackie, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
2011 Rendez-Vous 11, Institute d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France (in conjunction with the Lyon Biennial)
2011 Hit Refresh Part 1 & Part 2, curated by Nick Stillman & Cameron Shaw, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2011 Common Ground, curated by Jim Richard, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2011 The Emerging Landscape, curated by Anna Di Stasi, Society Contemporary, New York, NY
2011 reGeneration2, Fototeca de Centro de las Artes, Monterrey
2011 reGeneration2, Musée Batha, Rencontres Internationales de la Photo de Fès, Fès, Morocco
2011 reGeneration2, Caochangdi PhotoSpring Festival, Pékin Fine Arts, Beijing, China
2011 reGeneration2, Galerie Azzedine Alaïa, Paris, France
2011 reGeneration2, Aperture Gallery, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
2011 Catapult, T-LOT, New Orleans, LA
2010 Sailing to Byzantium, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2010 Art Miami, Aperture Foundation, Miami, FL
2010 (thru 2015) reGeneration2, Freedom Tower, Miami Dade College, Miami, FL
2010 reGeneration2, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy
2010 reGeneration2, PhotoWeek DC, Washington, DC
2010 reGeneration2, Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
2010 reGeneration2, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
2010 reGeneration2, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France
2010 reGeneration2: Tomorrow’s Photographers Today,Curated by William A. Ewing and Nathalie Herschdorfer, Musée
2010 de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
2009-2010 North of the City, Grand Central Terminal (MTA Arts for Transit), New York, NY
2008 For Don DeLillo, Gulf & Western Gallery, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York, NY

Professional Experience

2016-Current Adjunct Professor New York University, NY (High School Summer Program)
2015-2017 Visiting Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (Digital Photography, Large Format Photography, Photography Lecture Series)
2014 Adjunct Professor, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (Foundations of Art: Photography)
2013 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA (Advanced Photography, Special Studies in Photography: The Documentary Image)
2013 Media Coordinator, Hand-in-Glove Conference, New Orleans, LA
2013 Professor of Record, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (Foundations of Art: Photography)
2012 Head of programming, Tulane University Visiting Artist Lecture Series, New Orleans, LA
2012 Professor of Record, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA (Foundations of Art: Photography)
2008–Present independent curator & writer

Grants / Fellowships

2012 Conference Travel Grant, Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies (OGPS), Tulane University
2012 Summer Merit Fellowship, School of Liberal Arts, Dean’s Office, Tulane University
2011-2013 Tulane University Graduate Assistantship and tuition waiver
2011 New Orleans Tourism And Marketing Corporation, Office of Cultural Economy, Grant for St. Claude Satellites operations

Selected Publications / Articles / Web

September 2016, Middletown Press, “Florence Griswold Museum Show Features Work by Photographers“
November 2015, The Art Newspaper, “Bubbles, burps and chimes: Sophie Lvoff on Jim Shaw at the New Museum” by Sophie T. Lvoff
August 2015, Faktor, “Praunuka Lava Tolstoja u Sarajevu: Ovo je divno mjesto, želim doći ponovo“
August 2015, N1, “Tolstojeva praunuka za N1: Volim interakciju kod Sarajlija“
August 2015, BURNAWAY,”‘The Rising’ of New Orleans Post-Katrina, at the Ogden Museum“
August 2015, The New Orleans Advocate, “Photos in ‘Rising’ Challenge assumptions about Katrina’s Impact“
August 2015, Lenscratch, “The Ogden Museum Presents the Rising” by Aline Smithson
July 2015, Gambit, “Review: The Rising: Photography in Post-Katrina New Orleans” by D. Eric Bookheardt
November 2014, Bad at Sports, “Jessica Cochran’s Notes on Prospect 3“
November 2014, The New Orleans Advocate, “Top Five Prospect.3 moments” by John D’addario
November 2014, The Washington Post, “Prospect New Orleans saves room for city’s homegrown artists” by Mark Guarino
November 2014, Curbed, “Local Art Curated by Pelican Bomb is Coming to the Paramount” by April Siese
October 2013, BOMB Magazine, “Sophie T. Lvoff & Garrett Bradley“
October 2013, Burnaway, “The Book Behind Prospect.3” by Rebecca Lee Reynolds
September 2013, “St. Claude Index: Arts & Culture Guidebook”
February 2013, “We’re Pregnant” by Press Street
January 2013, Art Papers Magazine, by Amy Mackie.
December 2012, “Fraction Magazine Issue #45, curated by David Bram“
October 2012, Oxford American Online, “EYES ON THE SOUTH: Sophie Lvoff” written and curated by Jeff Rich
August 2012, Art Throb: Contemporary Art in South Africa, “Encountering the New at ‘Rendez-Vous 12′ Various Artists at Iziko South African National Gallery” by M Blackwell.
May 2012, Artforum, “Spaces: Antenna, the Front, Good Children Gallery” written by Nick Stillman.
May 2012, Art Papers, “SPACES: ANTENNA, THE FRONT AND GOOD CHILDREN GALLERY” written by D. Eric Bookhardt.
March 2012, Daily Serving, “Unnatural Communities” by Tori Bush.
February 2012, New Orleans Art Review Fall/Winter 2011-2012, “Common Ground” by Karl F. Volkmar.
Janurary 2012, “Room 220″ by Nathan C. Martin
2012-2011, Flak Photo Online Collection
September 2011, Arts Observer, “Arts for Transit: ‘North of the City’ Photographs“
August 2011, Gambit BestofNewOrleans.com “Common Ground expo at Arthur Roger Gallery” by D. Eric Bookhardt.
July 2011, Pelican Bomb. “Review: “Grant v. Lee” by Taylor Murrow.
June 2011, Gambit BestofNewOrleans.com “Grant v. Lee: Group show of contemporary works related to the Civil War” by D. Eric Bookhardt.
June 2011, NOLA Defender. “A HOUSE REUNITED: Grant vs. Lee Brings Opposing Forces Under One Roof” by Kathy Rodriguez.
2011, Rendez-Vous 11, catalog accompanying exhibition, Villeurbanne, FR.
2011, Good Children Gallery 2011, catalog designed by Erik Kiesewetter, essay by Nick Stillman & Cameron Shaw.
November 2010, UK Independent. “Living with Leo: Tolstoy’s Impressive Dynasty” by Holly Williams.
September 2010, Gambit BestofNewOrleans.com. “Sailing to Byzantium and New Orleans Mountain Project” by D. Eric Bookhardt.
April 2010, Vogue Girl Korea
2010, reGeneration 2: Tomorrow’s Photographers Today, published by Thames & Hudson in partnership with Aperture Foundation
June 2009, Animal New York. “ARTISTS BLESS ABANDONED CHURCH WITH EXHIBIT” by Will Sherman.
June 2009, Gothamist. “Old Church Houses Last Supper” by Jen Carlson
2009, The Collector’s Guide To Emerging Art Photography, curated and published by The Humble Arts Foundation

Collections

The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
The Do Good Fund, Columbus, GA
The Paramount Building, New Orleans, LA
The New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Bayou Teche Museum, New Iberia, LA
Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
Limited Edition Print Sale for reGeneration2, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY

Service

Contributer to DUUUradio.fr in Paris, FR
2011-2014 Member, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2012-2013 Programming, Visiting Artist and Lecture Series, Tulane University
2009-2010 Americorps, New Orleans, LA