Sophia is a critic and philanthropy professional based in Canberra. Sophia graduated with First Class Honours in Art History & Curatorship from the Australian National University in 2019, culminating in her thesis project Inherent Vice: on material culture and the mortality of ephemeral art. An excerpt of this thesis was published by the ANU Research Journal.

Sophia is the 2019 recipient of the Janet Wilkie Memorial Prize for Art History and Art Theory, the ANU’s top undergraduate honour for art history. In 2019 Sophia was also awarded the Capital Artists Patron’s Organisation’s (CAPO) Curatorial Award and the Australian Museum and Galleries Association’s (AMaGA) Curatorial Award for her work as an intern with Canberra Contemporary Art Space.

In 2020, Sophia was Critic-in-Residence for Australian National Capital Artists (ANCA) and Art Monthly Australasia and was Shortlisted for the 7th International Awards for Art Criticism (finalists to be announced in June 2021). She was also named as one of Agenda Paris & Asia-Pacific’s 30 Under 30 Emerging Cultural Leaders.

Sophia works in private giving at the National Gallery of Australia, working with her colleagues in the Development team to secure private funding in support of the mission and vision of the National Gallery. She is pursuing an Msc in International Development at the University of Edinburgh.