dyer.sofia@gmail.com
Based in Brooklyn
Sofía co-runs the photobook curation and artist programming at picturehouse + thesmalldarkroom. Within this role, she has moderated talks with artists including Rahim Fortune, Yelena Yemchuk, Odette England, Matt Black, Cheryl Mukherji, and Tim Carpenter.
Prior to her position at the thesmalldarkroom, Sofía worked as a research assistant for the Merrill C. Berman Collection of Avant-Garde Art (2019-2020); The Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (2017-2018); and the Harry Ransom Center, Austin, TX (2016-2017). She additionally assisted the gallerist Nailya Alexander from 2017-2019 and worked closely with her on preparing exhibitions for artists like Boris Ignatovich, George Tice, and Pentti Sammallahti.
Outside of her work at thesmalldarkroom, Sofía makes artist’s books, photographs, and films. Her current projects center around blindness within visual art, the crash test dummy as the capitalist subject, conspiracy theories, and the aesthetics of deformity.
A zine Sofía co-edits called EBB was exhibited in Currents: Free Expression and the Inexpressible at A.I.R. Gallery in 2024. A launch party and exhibition for the zine was held at Ban in Yerevan. EBB Issue 3: Strength of Materials is on view at Center For Photography, Woodstock through August 2025.
As part of the zine, Sofía translates texts from Russian to English. She additionally has native fluency in Spanish. In 2017, she worked on translating display materials from English to Spanish for the exhibition Mexico Modern: Art, Commerce, and Cultural Exchange, 1920-1945 at the Harry Ransom Center.
Sofía’s educational background is in Art History and Russian. She received a BA from the University of Texas, Austin in 2017 where she double-majored in Russian and Plan II Liberal Arts Honors and minored in Art History. In 2021, she received her MA from HSE in Moscow where she focused her research on nonconformist artists in Leningrad during perestroika.
She is currently an MFA candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a recipient of the New Artist Society Fellowship.
