About Me

Bio

Sophia Jakobson (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Western Massachusetts. Drawing from landscapes of personal significance, Sophia explores themes of inhabitance: in a place, a body, in community, and queerness. Sophia builds mixed media paintings, sculpture, and textiles that use landscape as a lens to explore their experience occupying a queer body. Sophia recently graduated summa cum laude from Mount Holyoke College as a Frances Perkins Scholar, where they double majored in art studio and sociology. Jakobson’s work has been shown throughout the Northeast. They have been awarded the 2025 Ruth E. Warfel Art Prize, The 2025 Leonard DeLonga Prize, and the 2024 Quabbin Arts Association Emerging Artist Scholarship.

​

Artist Statement

I construct mixed media paintings, sculpture, and textiles that contend with the relationship between queerness and the environment. Like an archeological dig, I draw from personal archives and queer theory, using materials such as recycled paper, fiber, and cement as a form of physical poetry to build emotional landscapes. Moving between representation and abstraction, my work activates the landscape and body as orientation devices; bodies are not fixed, but contingent on their environment, ever growing and mutable. Through this unearthing process, I build space for grief– of a body that feels broken, of a world that is cruel and treacherous– and reimagine possibilities for community and care.