Sofia Berinstein likes to take photographs with large cameras. She is fascinated by the ontology of everyday objects and their “thingness” and wonders what relationship her photographs bear to the objects or places they index. Sometimes she will walk on trails or drive on highways, documenting paths through the landscape and trying to understand these “objects” by photographing instances on these courses in overwhelming detail. She also uses other media including sculpture and installation to create graphs and experiments around the subjective experience of color. These projects also branch out into her interest in hermeneutics (the study of interpretation) and look into the categorization of structures of meaning in art and their parallels in linguistics. She holds a B.F.A from The Cooper Union.

Selected Group Exhibitions & Shows

2010

Brucennial: Miseducation
Group exhibition, 350 Broadway, New York, New York

Rites of Passage
Group exhibition, 41 Cooper Gallery,
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, New York

2008

Sofiaporia
Thesis Exhibition, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, New York

2007

Klasse Baumgarten
Group exhibition, Universität der Kunst, Berlin, Germany

On Earth
Group exhibition, Houghton Gallery, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, New York

2006

I.S.E Cultural Foundation, Group exhibition, New York, New York

Awards

2008
Service to the School Award from the Alumni of the Cooper Union

2006
Helen Dubroff Dorfman Travel Scholarship

2004
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art Full Tuition Scholarship