Sophia Engelman was born in Paris in 1978, from Greek mother and French father both of them artists.
She studied painting with the teacher L. Patraskidis in the school of fine arts of Athens from 1997 to 2002.
In parallel she studies sculpture, mosaics and scenography.
From 2003, she teaches art and history of art in the French school of Athens, LFH-ED.
Group exhibitions :
-En 2003, Gallery "Christina Carella", Athens
-En 2003, Gallery "Zoumboulaki", Athens
-Εn 2004, Gallery "Christina Carella", Athens
-En 2007, group exhibition : "Artower Gallery", Athens.
One man shows :
-Εn 2006, Gallery "Christina Carella", Athens
-En 2011, Gallery "Artville", Athens
-Εn 2015, Gallery "Feuillantine", Paris
Parallèlement aux arts plastiques, elle nourrit une passion pour la danse et les arts du spectacle, ce qui fera une de ses principales sources d’inspiration dans ses œuvres. En effet, les thèmes qu’elle propose sur différents supports et techniques tels que l’huile sur toile, les pastels à l’huile ou encore des petites scènes rappelant les kamishibai, s’inspirent de contes, d’atmosphères oniriques, souvent mis en scène dans un cadre théâtrale.
Apart from her visual art form, Sophia is deeply passionate and enthusiastic about choreography as well as stage performances where she draws her inspiration for her painting from. Indeed she uses different techniques such as oil paintings, oil pastel and 3D collages in lovely theatrical short scenes like Italian paper theaters and kamishibais staging fairy tales and wonderland atmospheres.