Sophia Mason is an artist from American Fork, Utah.  She lives in Memphis, Tennessee. She works like an artist jotting down fevered inspiration from a museum’s storage rooms. The soft sculptures, installations, and short performances she makes sound like an academic gallery tour and look like a suburban sewing room. 

The content of her work stems from her identity as a mormon feminist and the many threads of history and place that inform it. She learned sewing through generations of artistic mormon women and picks that sewing apart thanks to generations and maps worth of academics teaching her the intricacies of gender, race, and religious community in the American South and beyond. 

Sophia Mason attended Rhodes College and the University of Memphis for her MFA in Sculpture. She was an inaugural UrbanArt Commission New Public Sculptors Fellow in 2022. She has shown work in Field Guide at Intersect Arts Center and the Lambuth Airport in St. Louis, at Art Fields in Lake City, South Carolina, and most recently had her first solo exhibition Of Plural Worlds: Guided Tour at Coop in Nashville.

She advocates for Memphis artists starting out by running the Little House Gallery, an alternative gallery in her own home. She has also taught introductory Sculpture courses. She continues to teach out of an interest to discover how good teaching and arts learning happens like so many of her mentors achieve. Visit her website at Sophia Mason