Education
2021-2023: MA Painting: Royal College of Art
2014-2018: First Class BA (HONS) ART: Edinburgh College of Art
2013-2014: Cardiff Arts Academy Foundation
Awards/Residencies
2024: Society of Scottish Artists Graystone Gallery Award
2023: Long listed for the Robert Walters Group UK New Artist of The Year Award
2022: 196th RSA Annual Exhibition 2022 WASPS Award
2020: PADA Studios Artist-in-Residence
2018: Winner of the Artists Collecting Society Studio Residency Award
2018: Winner of the Pittenweem Bursary Award
2018: Shortlisted for the Astaire Prize
Collections
NHS Lothian Collection, Scotland
Imago Mundi Collection, Milan
Public Commissions
2019: Granite House wall mural, Stockwell Street, Glasgow
Exhibitions
2024
Who's Hungry Charity Brunch, Thameside Studios, London, 1 Dec
SSA 126th Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 23 Nov - 11 Dec
Walk While You Have The Light, Safehouse, London, 30 Aug - 1 Sep
Eco-Fobia Poetica, Galleria Gaburro, Milan, 9 Apr - 25 May
Morrison Foerster Art Prize exhibition, Scalpel Building, London, Jan - Jun
Tactically Necessary, Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, London, 10 Jan - 1st Feb
2023
RCA Degree Show, Truman Brewery, London, 13 - 16 July
ThirdFloor Group Show, RCA, London, May
2022:
FLOW MATTERS The Briggait, Glasgow, 5 - 27 November (RSA WASPS Award 2022)
Now Introducing, Studio West Gallery, NovemberSOPHIA PAULEY CV Wednesday, 12 February 2025
Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 23 April - 12 June
Robinson College Exhibition, Cambridge, 22 - 26 June
RAW, Soho Revue, London, 1 - 5 March
2021
Abstract Alba, Raffiki Gallery, Biscuit Factory, Edinburgh, 10 - 13 September
Re-Connect, SSA Online show, 21 May - 20 June
AIT Art Auction for refuge, London, 6 - 7 February
FLOW, Winter Exhibition with Visual Arts Scotland, Edinburgh, 1 Dec - 31 January
'No Borders' Initiative, raising funds in aid of the Maggie’s Centre, ArtThou Viewing Rooms
2020
SALAD DAYS, PADA Residency, Barreiro, Portugal, 24 September
On The Table, Marramarts, 22 May – 30 September
GradCurate Spring Exhibition, Bloc Gallery, Edinburgh, 13 - 19 March
Utopia - What’s Yours, SSA exhibition at Gracefield Arts Centre & Kirkcudbright Galleries, 20
December - 1 March
SSA/VAS OPEN, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 22 December - 30 January
2019
Little Originals,Group exhibition, Dock Street Studios, Dundee, 7 - 28 December
Encounter, Collaboration with Nancy Nightingale, Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh, 6 - 24 September
Pittenweem Arts Festival, Pittenweem, Scotland 3 - 11 August
2018
The Art Of The Party, Art Basel Miami, 1 Hotel South Beach, Miami, December
Best of Scottish Art School Graduates 2018 show, Art Pistol, Glasgow, 23 June
Pittenweem Arts Festival, Pittenweem, Scotland, August
ECA Degree Show, Edinburgh College of Art, June
The Salon, members show, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, May