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Featured work · 2025After the Long Rain
Available for acquisitionNew
York · Est. 2012
Abstract Expressionism
Sofia Ren
Known for atmospheric fields of color and gestural mark-making that transform memory into vivid, physical landscapes.
32Original artworks
18Selected exhibitions
12Countries collected
Collected by 240+ patronsPrivate and institutional collections worldwide
About the creator
Color as a record of lived experience.
Sofia Ren is a New York–based painter whose practice examines how places are remembered after their details begin to fade. Working in oil, pigment, and cold wax, she builds translucent surfaces through repeated acts of covering and revealing.
Her compositions move between landscape and abstraction. Fragments of architecture, weather, and handwritten notes appear briefly before dissolving into broad passages of color. The resulting paintings feel both immediate and archaeological.
“I think of every layer as a version of the same memory—changed slightly each time it is recalled.”
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Selected history
Exhibitions and recognition.
A practice developed through international exhibitions, residencies, and institutional collections.
Weather Held in Color
ArtVault Viewing Rooms, New York · Solo exhibition
Between Memory and Place
Northline Contemporary, London · Group exhibition
Emerging Painter Award
International Contemporary Art Foundation
New Material Landscapes
Centre for Contemporary Painting, Montreal
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