SOPHIE FRIEDMAN-PAPPAS (b. 1995, New York, NY) left New York for Los Angeles in 2021 to enroll at UCLA, where she received her MFA in 2024. Now Friedman-Pappas divides her time between NYC and LA sharing endless stories of utilitarian reappropriation, waste valorization, and the accidental undermining of these projects by their own patrons and designers.
Recent solo and two-person exhibitions of Friedman-Pappas' works include List Projects 28: Sophie Friedman-Pappas and TJ Shin, MIT List Center,
Cambridge, USA (2023-2024); Lacker (with Maren Karlson), in lieu, Los Angeles, USA (2023);
Hannah Black and Sophie Friedman-Pappas, Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York, USA (2022); and
Transfer Station (organized by Octagon), Alyssa Davis Gallery, New York, USA (2021). Selected
group exhibitions of her works include The Ceremony, Paul Soto, New York, USA (2025); Scupper, Francois Ghebaly, Los Angeles, USA (2024); Hot,
Art Lot, Brooklyn, USA (2024); Unlife: Part II, Soft Opening, London, UK (2024); Unlife: Part I, Soft
Opening at Paul Soto, Los Angeles, USA (2023); Inaugural Show, Bodenrader, Chicago, USA (2023);
Scouring, Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York, USA (2022); and The Devil Knows, Simone Subal, New
York, USA (2022).
