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Interviews:

Curatorial Affairs

On Dissevered Dreams: Sonya Derviz in Conversation with Mazzy-Mae Green

July 2023

Floor Magazine

Issue 21, Sonya Derviz interview by Stephen Feather

August 2019

Bio:

Sonya Derviz (b. 1994, Moscow) lives and works in London. She graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Slade School of Fine Art in 2018, having previously completed her Foundation Diploma at Central Saint Martins. She held her first solo exhibition at VO Curations, London, in 2018. Selected group exhibitions include: 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).

Education: 

2014 - 2018, BA Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL​

Awards: 

UCL Dean’s List, 2018

Stanbury Prize, 2018
UCL Art Museum Award, 2017

Solo / two person exhibitions:

 

2023

 

Closer, Sherbet Green, London

Solo show

Sherbet Green, Unit 1, 2 Treadway St, London E2 6QW

15th September - 28th October, 2023

 

2022

The eyes have all the seeming, of a demon's that is dreaming, curated by Sa-Yori Radda, Daniel Benjamin Gallery, London

Solo show

Daniel Benjamin Gallery, 68 Compton Street, EC1V 0BN, London

21 September – 29 October, 2022

First Light, organised by Hector Campbell, Collective Ending, London

An exhibition of works by Lewis Brander and Sonya Derviz,

Collective Ending HQ, 3 Creekside, SE8 4SA, London

19th February - 19th March, 2022

2018

Pas De Corps, V.O Curations, London

Solo show

Organised by V.O Curations with the support of Outset Contemporary Art Fund

93 Baker Street, W1U 6QQ, London

5th - 18th August, 2018

Group exhibitions:

2023

Bury a Friend, Roman Road, London

An exhibition of works by Johanna Bath, Sonya Derviz, Jack Laver and Mia Vallance

17th March - 14th April, 2023

Part 2: Excursion, Split Gallery, London
An exhibition of works by Ellie Antoniou, Marco Bizzarri, Sonya Derviz, Xiaochi Dong, Tim H H Lee

8th - 22nd March, 2023

Part I: Recursion, Split Gallery, London
An exhibition of works by Ellie Antoniou, Marco Bizzarri, Sonya Derviz, Xiaochi Dong, Tim H H Lee

15th - 22nd February, 2023

Into My Arms, Sherbet Green, London
An exhibition of works by Sonya Derviz, My-Lan Hoang-Thuy, Shamiran Istifan and Li Li Ren

19th January - 4th March 2023

2022

Tomorrow's Woman, Natasha Arselan Gallery via Artsy

An exhibition of works by Genevieve Cohn, Rebecca Harper, Lauryn Levett, Riikka Sormunen, Grace Bromley, Tirtzah Bassel, Rhiannon Salisbury, Ellen Akimoto, Sonya Derviz, Alexi Marshall, Florine Imo, Paige Perkins, Natasha Wright,

Emma Hapner, Emeli Theander

20th June - 20th August 2022

Inside Out, The Artist Room, London

An exhibition of works by Sophie Mei Birkin, Max Boyla, Sonya Derviz, Antoine Leisure, Kin-Ting Li,

Ding Shilun and Scott Young

The Artist Room, 76 Brewer Street, W1F 9TX, London

10th March - 2nd April 2022​

Pathways on Paper, South Parade, London

A group exhibition of works on paper in aid of Maggie’s - 'everyone’s home of cancer care'

South Parade, Enclave 9, 50 Resolution Way, SE 4AL, London

27th January - 28th February, 2022

2020

It Seems So Long Ago, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles, 2020

An exhibition of works by Ann Greene Kelly, Dan Herschlein, Heidi Hahn, Kent O’Connor, Maja Ruznic, Patricia Ayres,

Sonya Derviz and Waldemar Zimbelmann

633 North La Brea Ave, Suite 101, 90036, Los Angeles

9th July - 1st August, 2020

 

2019​

Minimal | Maximal, What's Up London by Lawrence Van Hagen, London

An exhibition of works by Johnny Abrahams, Gabriele Adomaityte, Carl Andre, Tom Anholt, Stefan Bruggemann, Daniel Buren, Ha Chong-hyun, George Condo, Mary Corse, Dadamaino, Sonya Derviz, Do Ho Sun, Anna Fasshauer, Dan Flavin, Dorian Gaudin, Yann Gerstberger, Sam Gilliam, Simon Hantai, Robert Irvin, Tarik Kiswanson, Franz Kline, Alicja Kwade, Mimi Lauter, Martin Leonard, Beth Letain, Enrique Martinez Celaya, Robert Morris, Olivier Mosset, Sam Moyer, Frank Nitsche, Santiago Parra, Ian Wallace, Gary Webb and Stanley Whitney

22 Davies Street, W1K 3DE, London

1st - 19th October, 2019

Best New Now, Auc Art x Artsy

A group exhibition including a handpicked selection of works by AucArt’s most promising recent graduate artists

26th August - 9th September, 2019

'Parfum d'epines', Phillips x V.O Curations, Paris

An exhibition of works by Muriel Abadie, Jean-Marie Appriou, Robert Brambora, Claude Bellegarde, Sonya Derviz,

Daiga Grantina, Oda Jaune, Victor Man and Pedro Wirz

Phillips, 46 rue du Bac, 75007, Paris

23rd May - 21st July, 2019

'Just as when the night', Light Eye Mind, London

An exhibition of works by Sonya Derviz, Kin-Ting Li and Mariann Metsis

Light Eye Mind, 176 Blackstock Road, N5 1HA, London

29th - 30th June, 2019

 

2018

'Not another degree show', organised by Alex Vardaxoglou for Kensington and Chelsea Art Weekend, London, 2018

An exhibition of works by Finlay Abbott Ellwood, Lewis Brander, Sonya Derviz, Jacob Littlejohn and Charlie Lockyer

237 Brompton Road, SW3 2ER, London

27th - 29th July, 2018

'Paintings by', group show organised by Alex Vardaxoglou, London

An exhibition of works by Finlay Abbott Ellwood, Lewis Brander, Sonya Derviz, Kin-Ting Li, Arthur Poujois,

Camilla Roma, Carlotta Roma and Io Worthington

237 Brompton Road, SW3 2ER, London

23rd - 26th July, 2018

 

‘Slade Show 2018’, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London

An exhibition of works by the graduating Slade BA/BFA students

18th - 24th May, 2018

2017

'The composition has been reversed', UCL Art Museum, London

An exhibition of works by Sonya Derviz, Cyrus Hung, Eloise Lawson, Amanda Rice and Grace Richardson

UCL Art Museum, Wilkins Building, South Cloisters, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT, London
26 September - 18 December, 2017

2016

‘Lemons, Okra and Goutweed’, Embassy Tea Gallery, London

An exhibition of works organised by Slade Students

205 Union St, London SE1 0LN

Links / Publications:

- On Dissevered Dreams: Sonya Derviz in Conversation with Mazzy-Mae Green, Curatorial Affairs, July 2023


- London Art Roundup Issue 48 Into My Arms at Sherbet Green, 2023


- The Shock of the Now - Issue 69, 2023


- Into My Arms at Sherbet Green, FAD Magazine 2023


- At my peak, I was eating two pounds of mean and six raw eggs per day, Best Young Galleries, Spittle’s Newsletter, 2023

- The artistic genius of Carly Rae Jepsen, Inside Out Exhibition of the week, 2022


- The dead end of just vibing, Spittle’s Newsletter 2022

- The best exhibitions to visit in March, Bricks magazine, 2022

- Collective Ending presents Lewis Brander and Sonya Derviz, First Light, FAD Magazine, 2022


- What does it mean kissy face no heart, Spittle’s Newsletter, 2022

- Three shows to see in London this weekend, FAD Magazine, 2022


- The Shock of the Now Issue 29 First Light Lewis Brander and Sonya Derviz, 2022

- Interview, Floor Magazine, 2019

- Sonya Derviz, Interview, Heap Magazine, 2019

- ‘Best things to see at Frieze 2019’ by Natasha Arselan, GQ, 2019

'- Art subject: Sonya Derviz’ by Aleksei Zimin, Zima Magazine, 2019

- Interview, YNGSPC, 2019

- ‘Time to wake up yet’, print publication edited by Renyi NG and Catalina Arzani. The publication includes works by Isaac Lythgoe, Stefania Batoeva, Sophie Jung, Marsi Rex, etc. Available via Cordova Gallery, Almanac Gallery, Jupiter Woods, Ex. Directory, Sorbs Gallery, XYZ Collective, etc., 2018

- ‘Discovery Channels’, Financial Times, 2018

- ‘2018’ print publication, published by Sonya Derviz and Harley Kuyck Cohen to coincide with the Slade Show 2018. The publication includes works and texts by Renyi NG, Sana Serkebaeva, Madeleine Pledge, Joe Highton, Kin-Ting Li, 2018

Contact:

sonyaderviz@gmail.com

@sonyaderviz

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