ARTIST BIO

Sally Scopa (b. 1990) uses the formal language of painting, which is replete with historically entrenched rules and expectations, to question the equally timeworn and limiting standards that plague the female body. While her work critiques mainstream ideas about beauty, it is first and foremost a celebration of the body’s small rebellions, its pleasures and idiosyncrasies. In her paintings, diagrams of cellulite become mountainous landscapes; curiously shaped holes in the earth morph into sensuous pairs of legs; white, abstract grids, upon further inspection, reveal themselves to be plump and inviting mattresses where the viewer’s gaze can come to rest.

Scopa graduated from Harvard University in 2013 with a BA in Visual and Environmental Studies, and from Stanford University in 2019 with an MFA in Art Practice. Recent shows include solo exhibitions at Eve Leibe Gallery (London), Biquini Wax EPS (Mexico City), and Disneyland Paris (Melbourne), as well as group exhibitions at 550 Gallery (New York) and Radio28 (Mexico City). She has been awarded residencies at SOMA in Mexico City and the Cité internationale des arts in Paris, France. She is based in Mexico City (MX) and Bellingham, Washington (USA).