Sophia Grancharova was born in 1994 in the city of Sofia. She graduated with a BA of Fine Arts at ESAM (École Supérieure d'Arts et Médias) in Caen, France (2016). Member of the Institute of Contemporary Art Sofia. Shе has participated in many educational programmes such as “Arts and Politics”, Goethe Institute Sofia, (2020); “Curatorial School”, Swimming Pool, Sofia, (2019); “School4artists”, ICA Sofia (2017)

Among her solo exhibitions are: “Other Urban Order(s)”, cur. Firat Arapoglu, ICA Sofia (2022), “If you look closely, things may fall apart”, Sofia City Art Gallery, Bulgaria (2021), “An Eternal Cocktail”, “Vaska Emanouilova” gallery, Sofia (2019). Some of her group exhibitions are: “Dog Days”, Structura Gallery, Sofia (2024); “Eco-System/Ego-System, ICA Sofia“ City Art Gallery, Varna (2024); “State of Emergency”, National Gallery, Sofia (2023);  “+1”, Sarieva Gallery, Plovdiv (2023); “Self-splaining (a Triumph of Empathy)”, “Manifesta 14”, Pristina (2022); “Echo”, Sarieva Gallery, Plovdiv, Bulgaria (2022), “Market of Desire: Earthly&Heavenly”, Iliyantsi market, Sofia (2021); “I Heard a Flutter of Wings at the Window”, Structura Gallery, Sofia, (2021); “Open Art Files: Notes and Footnotes” by Open Arts Foundation, Kapana gallery, Plovdiv (2019).

In her work Sophia uses various techniques and artistic gestures by remaining a mediator between the visual image itself and its variable functions. Often in her exhibitions and projects, she organizes spatial relations designed to involve the spectator. She transforms photographs, images or magazine clippings into material objects, blurring their meaning and context, allowing the viewer to move around and “tackle” them conceptually. A focal point in her work is the human body and its components that organize its entirety. The human figure and the body of the work merge into an integral domain that reconciles media image and existence, thus becoming a neutral, warm and breathing space.