Born in New York, NY, 1986
Lives and works Marseille, Fr. & NYC
Professor of photography & editions at École supérieure des beaux-arts de Nîmes
Education
2017-2019 Post-Diplôme, Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon, France
2015 Curatorial Training Program (Session 24), École du MAGASIN, Grenoble, France
2013 MFA Studio Arts, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
2008 BFA Photography & Imaging / Philosophy, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York, NY.
Solo/Duo Exhibitions
2023 Prime Time, curated by Guilhem Monceaux, Pauline Perplexe, Arcueil, Fr.
2021 The Green Princess, KIOSK, Cité radieuse de Marseille, Marseille, Fr.
2019 The Davidoff’s, Belsunce Projects, Marseille, Fr.
2019 Fruits & Légumes, Medium Argent, Rouen, Fr.
2018 La Avion, curated by François Piron, Le Réfectoire des nonnes, Lyon, Fr.
2013 Hell’s Bells/Sulfur/Honey, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 (forthcoming) Petrified Waters, Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel, DE.
2024 (forthcoming) Petrified Waters, CAC Passerelle, Brest, Fr.
2023 Ni drame ni suspense (les conditions de la durée), Triangle-Asterides, La Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille, Fr.
2020 The Drowned, Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile, AL
2019 Là où les eaux se mêlent: 15e Biennale d’art contemporain, Lyon, Fr.
2019 L’almanach des aléas, Foundation Ricard, Paris, Fr.
2019 LUMA Rencontres Dummy Book Award, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, Fr.
2018 Brazil, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, It.
2016 In Place: Contemporary Photographers Envision a Museum, Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT
2015 The Rising, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
2014 Prospect.3: Notes for Now, curated by Franklin Sirmans, New Orleans, LA
2011 Rendez-vous 11, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, Fr.
2010-2015 reGeneration2: Tomorrow’s Photographers Today, Curated by William A. Ewing and Nathalie Herschdorfer, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, CH & the Aperture Foundation
Curated Exhibitions/Projects
2022 ANNE TURYN New York City 1979/1981, La Salle de Bains, Lyon, Fr.
2022 A Reading Party II: une soirée consacrée à Top Stories, avec des lectures par des invité.es, Sonic Lyon, Fr.
2022 New York City in 1979/1981, photographs by Anne Turyn & ephemera of the TOP STORIES era, Giselle’s Books, Marseille, Fr.
2022 A Reading Party I, Giselle’s Books and live on *Duuu radio
2021 Title or Turtle 01: Tatiana Karl Pez, occasional Franco-American sound magazine produced with Elia David on *Duuu radio
2020 Title or Turtle 00: Claude Horstmann, occasional Franco-American sound magazine produced with Elia David on *Duuu radio
2016 The Initiative of the Mouths, Anouchka Oler, Secret Dungeon, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Take You There Radio, Le Magasin CNAC, Grenoble, Fr.
2014 oui-aaa.tumblr.com/galerieshowcase, Christophe de Rohan Chabot, AAA, Grenoble, Fr.
2013 Friday the 13th, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Selected Writing / Publications / Articles / Web
September 2023 Blood and Dust : pumping up the potential, How to Become the Daughters of Darkness, HOW editions
June 2023 The Prime Times Volume II, crymimicry editions, Sophie T. Lvoff
January 2023 HOOT n°09 : Sophie T. Lvoff / Moyra Davey, gufo editions
January 2023 Barking Up The Wrong Tree, HOW editions, Sophie T. Lvoff
January 2023 The Prime Times Volume I, crymimicry editions, Sophie T. Lvoff
September 2022 TOP STORIES live au Sonic, limited edition cassette, produced by Sophie T. Lvoff
July 2022 Se Souvenir et Témoigner [To record and testify], La Belle Revue, In extenso, Sophie T. Lvoff
December 2021 I Bring You To Le Havre Tonight, Dispersantx, DQ Press / avec le soutien de la Maison de la poésie de Rennes
December 2020 A conversation about NO SAFE PLACE by Peter Brandt, Bruise Magazine
October 2020 On Flatness and Of Roundness, exhibition text by Sophie T. Lvoff, Sandberg Instituut
September 2019 Là où les eaux se mêlent: 15e Biennale d’art contemporain, Yoann Gourmel and Claire Moulène (ed.) exhibition catalog
April 2019 Recent Verticals and Horizontals, La Belle Revue no. 9, In extenso, photographs and poems by Sophie T. Lvoff
March 2019 The Center is Not the Center: Interview with Chris Kraus by Sophie T. Lvoff, Los Angeles Review of Books
November 2018 Le Centre N’est Pas le Centre, entretien avec Chris Kraus par Sophie T. Lvoff, Initiales n° 12 : Sylvère Lotringer, ENSBA Lyon
September 2018 How to Become a Soft Corpse Recomposed in Light Fabric, The Cheapest University, Sophie T. Lvoff
September 2018 Ecole du Magasin (1987-2016): How Fitting an End (ed.), School Watch, art&education, e-flux
June 2018 The Panama City Papers, self-published artist book, Sophie T. Lvoff
September 2017 How to Become A Body Double, The Cheapest University, Sophie T. Lvoff
December 2016 In Place: Photographers Envision a Museum exhibition catalog, Florence Griswold Museum
December 2015 The Georgia Review, Pictures of Us: Photographs from the Do Good Fund Collection, University of Georgia Press
November 2015 Bubbles, burps and chimes: Sophie Lvoff on Jim Shaw at the New Museum, The Art Newspaper
January 2015 Modern Painters, The Search: Photographing Heat, Light, Color in New Orleans by Scott Indrisek
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
October 2014 BOMB Magazine, Sophie T. Lvoff & Garrett Bradley
May 2012 Artforum, Spaces: Antenna, the Front, Good Children Gallery by Nick Stillman
Collections
New Orleans Museum of Art
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
Aperture Foundation
The Do Good Fund
Bayou Teche Museum, New Iberia, LA
Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, CH.
Residencies
2021-2023 Atelliers de la Ville de Marseille, Marseille, Fr.
2022 Treignac Projet, Treignac, Fr.
2022 [Embed] Kassumay (bateau à voile nomade)
2020 Treignac Projet, Treignac, Fr.
2018 Treignac Projet, Treignac, Fr.
2017 Summer Acceptance (auto-organized), Chaumont-sur-Tharonne, Fr.
2016 A-Z West, Joshua Tree, CA
2014 The Hermitage, Englewood, FL
Lectures/Readings/Talks
2024 (forthcoming) How to Become The Daughters of Darkness, Cipm Centre international de Poésie, Marseille, Fr.
2023 How to Become The Daughters of Darkness, rile* books, Brussels, Be.
2023 Martha Wilson in conversation with Sophie T. Lvoff, Les Beaux-Arts de Marseille – INSEAMM, Marseille, Fr.
2023 Barking Up the Wrong Tree, HOW Chapbook Series reading, L’imprimierie, Marseille, Fr.
2023 HOOT n°09: Sophie T. Lvoff / Moyra Davey, lancement, After 8 Books, Paris, Fr.
2023 Barking Up the Wrong Tree, HOW Chapbook Series readings and launch, Pauline Perplexe , Arcueil, Fr.
2022 Tarkos Traduit, Cipm Centre international de Poésie, Marseille, Fr.
2019 Chrononhotonthologos* une journée de l’exposition à l’édition, DOC! Paris, Fr.
2019 I Bring You To Le Havre Tonight, reading and live performance, Fondation Ricard, Paris, Fr.
2018 Abundance, live performance of three poems with Elia David, Belsunce Projects, Marseille
2018 Revue Initiales n°12: Sylvère Lotringer / Lancement, Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris, Fr.
2018 O que significa fazer uma escola (de arte)?, Parque Lage, Escola de Artes Visuais, Rio de Janeiro, Br.
2017 How to Become A Body Double (Reading Event), ENSBA Post-diplôme with The Cheapest University at Café Bellevue, Lyon
2016 Sappho to Miss Florence to Walker Evans in Old Lyme, Artist Talk, Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT
2015 Documentation in Light, Color and Sound, Artist Talk, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
2015 Ever Feel Like You Could Just…? presentation of Take You There Radio, École Supérieure d’Art et Design, Grenoble, Fr.
2014 A Letter From New Orleans, Artist Talk, DAM Projects, London, UK
2014 P.3 Reads: The Moviegoer, Franklin Sirmans in Conversation with Sophie T. Lvoff, New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, LA
2013 Sophie Lvoff & Jonathan Traviesa, M.F.A Candidate Lecture Series, Tulane University
Grants
2022 Aides à l’installation et achat de matériel, DRAC, PACA
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, Dean’s Office, Tulane University
2011 Grant for St. Claude Satellites Operations, New Orleans Tourism And Marketing Corporation, Office of Cultural Economy
Teaching Experience
Current Professeure d’enseignement artistique : photographie-image-édition, École supérieure des beaux-arts de Nîmes, Fr.
2018-2022 Professeure (visual culture, Espace), École supérieure d’art et design, Saint-Étienne, Fr.
2017-2019 Visiting Adjunct Professor, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, NY, NY
2015-2017 Visiting Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
2013 Adjunct Professor, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
2012-2013 Professor of Record, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA