dyer.sofia@gmail.com

Sofía Granados Dyer is a visual artist, cultural programmer, and writer based in NYC.

Sofía has worked as a founding director of public programming at picturehouse + thesmalldarkroom since 2022. Within this role, she has led public conversations with photographers including Rahim Fortune, Daniel Arnold, Yelena Yemchuk, Odette England, Matt Black, and Tim Carpenter.

For the past six years, Sofía has co-edited an English-Russian publication called EBB that platforms work by dissident artists. Each copy is entirely handmade and produced in small editions. The publication has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions including Currents: Free Expression and the Inexpressible at A.I.R. Gallery in 2024, and Flashpoint! Protest Photography in Print at CPW in 2025. Issues 2 and 3 can be found in the NYPL Art & Architecture Collection.

Sofía’s current writing and visual work explores topics like the violent history of crash test dummies, and material and psychological deformity in connection to Christian liturgy. Her work is generously supported by the New Artist Society Fellowship through the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Low-Residency MFA.

In 2021, Sofía received her MA from Higher School of Economics in Moscow where she focused her research on nonconformist artists in Leningrad during perestroika. She has 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.