Sophie Westerlind (b. 1985, Stockholm) is an artist working across painting, drawing and ceramics. She is based between Paris and Sweden. Her current research in collaboration with curator Marta Cereda is centred on the act of attentive looking as a means of understanding the intimacy and complexity of contemporary life. Through painting with oil in various formats, she constructs a visual vocabulary that foregrounds the quiet resonance of ordinary moments: scenes drawn from everyday environments, personal archives, and encounters that might otherwise go unnoticed.

She holds an MA from Royal College of Art (2018) a BA from Central Saint’ Martins (2011) and an MA from Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia (2018). In 2019 she was awarded the Swedish national bursary for drawing, ‘The Thinking Hand’.

Residency programs include Læsø Air, Læsø, Denmark (2026) the Docks Dora residency, Turin (2026) The Mirror Institution, Öland, Sweden (2025), Cité internationale des arts, Paris (2022) Fincantieri S.p.A, Venice (2020) Lido contemporanee, Fano, Italy (2021) and Dolomiti Contemporanee, Belluno IT (2019).

Recent solo exhibitions include POV contemporary, Cologne (2025) Galerie Norbert Arns, Cologne (2023) Casa Testori and Teatro deSidera, Milan (2022), Spazio Neutro, Reggio Emilia (2021) and Museo Diocesano di Belluno-Feltre (2019). Her work was shown in a two-person exhibition at the Swedish Institute in Rome (2023). Selected group exhibitions include Barbati Gallery, Venice (2026) Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco (2025) Spazio Berlendis, Venice (2025) Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm (2024) Tommaso Calabro, Milan (2021) The Museum of Antiquities, Stockholm (2019) and Gandy Gallery, Bratislava (2018).