Sonya Derviz






Sonya Derviz (b. 1994, Moscow, RU) lives and works in London, UK, since 2006. She graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Slade School of Fine Art in 2018. Solo exhibitions include: Closer, Sherbet Green, London (2023); and Pas de Corps, V .O Curations, London (2018). Group exhibitions include: Soft Focus, Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal (2024); Bury a Friend, Roman Road, London (2023); Into My Arms, Sherbet Green, London (2023); First Light, curated by Hector Campbell, Collective Ending, London (2022); Inside Out, The Artist Room, London (2022); It Seems So Long Ago, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2020); Minimal | Maximal, LVH Art, London (2019); Parfum d’épines, Phillips x V .O Curations, Paris (2019); and Paintings by, Alex Vardoxoglou, London (2019).



Untitled, oil on hessian, 200 x 220 cm, 2020





Looking forward, looking back, oil on canvas, 100 x 135 cm, 2023







Deep above III, oil on canvas, 200 x 220 cm, 2023






    Wild girl II, oil on linen, 95 x 125 cm, 2023





    Butterfly turning into a spider, oil on canvas, 200 x 220 cm, 2022






    Wise young girl III, oil on canvas, 200 x 220 cm, 2020













    Soft Commodity Exhibitions 

    Condition
    Sonya Derviz and Joel Wycherley
    6 - 28 June, 2025
    The Shop, Sadie Coles HQ
    Kingly Street London 
    W1B 5QN
     

    Education

    2014–2018: BA Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL

    Awards

    2018: UCL Dean’s List
    2018: Stanbury Prize
    2017: UCL Art Museum Award

    Solo / Two-Person Exhibitions

    2024: Art-o-rama, Sonya Derviz and Li Li Ren presented by Sherbet Green, Marseille
    2023: Closer, Sherbet Green, London
    2023: Sherbet Green, Unit 1, 2 Treadway St, London E2 6QW
    2022: The Eyes Have All the Seeming of a Demon’s That Is Dreaming, curated by Sa-Yori Radda, DB Gallery, London
    2022: First Light, organised by Hector Campbell, Collective Ending, London
    2018: Pas De Corps, V.O Curations with support of Outset Contemporary Art Fund, London

    Group Exhibitions

    2024: Exhibition 58, PM/AM, London
    2024: Picturing the Animal, Sherbet Green, London
    2024: Soft Focus, Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal
    2023: Bury a Friend, Roman Road, London
    2023: Part 2: Excursion, Split Gallery, London
    2023: Part I: Recursion, Split Gallery, London
    2023: Into My Arms, Sherbet Green, London
    2022: Tomorrow’s Woman, Natasha Arselan Gallery
    2022: Inside Out, The Artist Room, London
    2022: Pathways on Paper, South Parade, London
    2020: It Seems So Long Ago, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles
    2019: Minimal | Maximal, What’s Up London by Lawrence Van Hagen, London
    2019: Best New Now, Auc Art × Artsy
    2019: Parfum d’épines, Phillips × V.O Curations, Paris
    2019: Just as When the Night, Light Eye Mind, London
    2018: Not Another Degree Show, organised by Alex Vardaxoglou for Kensington & Chelsea Art Weekend, London
    2018: Paintings By…, group show organised by Alex Vardaxoglou, London
    2017: The Composition Has Been Reversed, UCL Art Museum, London
    2016: Lemons, Okra and Goutweed, Embassy Tea Gallery, London


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