Sophia Yuet See (b. 1998) is a multidisciplinary artist from London, currently in Hong Kong. Working with experimental celluloid moving image, sculpture and zines, they explore the constructedness of collective memory keeping, queer diasporic subjectivity and the sociopolitical conditions that inform seemingly neutral tools, technologies and archives.
Recurring feelings of longing and absence mark their work as they explore non-linear narratives of return and recovery, reimagining and grappling with what has been created out of trauma and marginalisation; how trauma renders in the body, situated knowledge, and fragmented memory. They regularly question what it means to create images in these gaps and their work is an attempt to share these explorations and processes.
They were previously part of Mai Ling Collective and co-created an open queer-feminist library in Vienna, Lazy Library. They are currently finalising their upcoming short film China Girl.
2022—23 Schule Friedl Kubelka, Experimental Film, Vienna
2017—23 Slade School of Art, University College London, Fine Art BA
2019—20 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Post-Conceptual Art Studio
2016—7 Central Saint Martins, Art Foundation
Exhibitions & Screenings
Close[t] Demonstrations, Semmelweisklinik, Vienna (AT), 2023
Final Screening Klasse 22/23, Austrian Film Museum, Vienna (AT), 2023
815256000 FRAMES AGO, I, Metrokino Kulturhaus, Vienna (AT), 2022
Kurzfilm Screenings, Queer Museum Vienna, Volkskundemuseum (Austrian Museum of Folk Art), Vienna (AT), 2022
Degree Show, Slade School of Art, London (UK), 2022
fast glass, Set, London (UK), 2022
Mai Ling: Dialogues, Museum of Asian Art, Nice (FR), 2021
Who is Mai Ling?, Austrian Association of Women Artists (VBKÖ), Vienna, AT, 2021
Mai Ling Kocht: Fish, Fruitfest, online, Vienna (AT), 2021
Mai Ling Kocht 2: Eating as Pleasure and Protest, kültürgemma is ON! Festival, Vienna (AT), 2021
Mai Ling Kocht (live performance), CIVA Festival, Brussels (BE), 2021
Feminist Findings, Liberation in Print, A-Z presents, Berlin (DE), 2020
possibly maybe, Improper Walls, Vienna (AT), 2020
Rundgang, Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna (AT), 2020
Friday Late: Rising, V&A, London (UK), 2018
2 Friends screening, British Film Institute, London (UK), 2018
Foundation Diploma Show, Central Saint Martins, London (UK), 2017
STOP PLAY RECORD: Playback Festival, ICA, London (UK), 2016
Spaceship Screening, HOME MCR, Manchester (UK), 2016
Relevant Work & Curation
2024 Film Producter and Director, China Girl short film (in-post)
2024 No Pride in Apartheid Readings, Austrian Association of Women Artists
2022 Production support, Fences, Insects, Embroideries, Wien Woche
2019—22 Curated queer-feminist library project ‘Lazy Library’ & organized reading events
2020—1 Art direction, Kültür Gemma is on! Festival
2020—1 Artist Collective Member of Mai Ling Association
2017 Facilitated Identity and Arts workshops, Maslaha Organisation
2017 Facilitated Zine Workshops, Voices that Shake!
2016—18 Art direction, Consented Magazine
2015—8 Co-founder/co-editor, Sula Collective, an online/print zine for & by people of colour