Sophie Dvorák

www.sophiedvorak.net

lives and works in Vienna, Austria.

In an artistic practice spanning conceptual drawing, collage, sculpture and collecting, Dvořák is dealing with questions referring to space and territories and their representational codes, history and perception. She creates artworks and installative arrangements representing abstract-fictitious illustrations of world(s) and knowledge and interpretations of history and spatial relations.

EDUCATION

Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria (Diploma in 2008) and the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland

School for Artistic Photography Vienna, Friedl Kubelka (graduated in 2005)

AWARDS/GRANTS

2020 .Austrian State Scholarship for Fine Arts / Staatsstipendium für bildende Kunst

2019 .SeMA NANJI Residency Program operated by the Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, KOR

2018 .SoArt Artist in Residence, Millstättersee, A

2017 .Örö Residency Program, FI

2016/17 .Artist in Residence, Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, CHINA

2016 .Förderungspreis der Stadt Wien für Bildende Kunst / Promotion Award of the city of Vienna for Fine Arts

2014 .AIR Stipendium Budapest von der Stadt Wien, HU

2013 .'Startstipendium' for Fine Arts, bm:ukk, A

2012 .Theodor Körner Preis

2011 .Atelierstipendium, Chengdu, CHINA, granted by the bm:ukk (Austrian Federal Ministry for Arts and Culture)

2011 .AIR B93 Enschede, AREHolland, NL

2010 .Artist in Residence, Atelje Stundars, FI

2008 .1st Prize, XVth International Triennale of Graphic Arts, Frechen, D

2007 .Academic scholarship, Glasgow School of Art , Scotland, UK

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Artothek des Bundes im Belvedere 21, Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, A

Sammlung der Stadt Wien - Wien Museum, Artothek Vienna, A

Graphic Collection of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna / Kupferstichkabinett der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien

Collection of International Contemporary Art, Budapest / Sammlung für internat. zeitgenössische Kunst der Stadt Budapest, HU