Sofía del Pedregal was born in 1989 in Concepción, Chile. She is
an artist formerly based in Santiago, Chile. In 2013, she
obtained her BFA Visual Arts degree at Universidad de Chile.
Since 2010 she has participated in national and international
group exhibitions and has made three solo shows in Santiago,
Chile.
Del Pedregal designs landscapes that refer to the contemporary
human experience and our interventions into the landscape that
see our creations built and then discarded. The work she
has developed is multidisciplinary and includes
miniature sculptures, minimalist paintings, and collage, which
represent urban ruins like tumbledown buildings and natural
landscapes intervened. Their appearance is delicate and
precise. They seek to enhance the minimum, the
“insignificant,” through compositions with fragments of
objects. However, in terms of artistic references, her work
dialogues with the architecture concept of Folie understood as
constructions in which functionality is unknown, and in which the
absence of meaning endows spaces with an atmosphere of
strangeness, thus suspending them in time. Currently, she is
expanding her art practice to video projects.
In 2019, she exhibited an artist’s book at NY Art Book Fair 2019
by Printed Matter, New York, USA. Also, in 2020 she started along
with 11 international artists (USA, VE, HU, BR, CL) the ongoing
art collaboration project titled Meetings.proj. Regarding solo
shows, in 2016 she presented her second solo exhibition titled
Cajonera at Galería NAC in Santiago, Chile. Del Pedregal made her
third solo show, titled Lo Abierto at Espacio Andrea Brunson in
Santiago, Chile. Some selected group shows: MAVI Prize:
Contemporary Young Art, Museum of Visual Arts (MAVI) in Santiago,
Chile (selected in 2014 and 2015); Habitar el Territorio at Matta
Cultural Center (CCMATTA) in Buenos Aires, Argentina (2018).
Afterward, she was selected to participate in the Residency
Epecuén, Fondo de Arte Ambos Mundos, Epecuén, Argentina.(2018)
Moreover, her work was published in Ojo Andino (Rosa Bianca
Ediciones/Luciano Benneton Collection) and in Sub30: Young
painting in Chile (Ediciones C), both published in 2014. Her work
is part of private collections in Chile, Argentina, France,
Italy, and Spain.
Indy Film Library has
posted a review of “Poem Reply to Sofia,” an experimental film by
first-year M.F.A. candidate Sofia Del Pedregal, in their recent
newsletter. .
