photo credit: Hanna Dolzhenkova

Sofya Belinskaya is a Ukrainian-American visual artist who weaves elements of the body, landscape, and architecture into ephemeral paintings. Looking through the lens of immigrant experience, she examines how displacement, loss, and recollection shape the stories we tell about shifting places and identities. Her work reimagines personal and social histories, while engaging the fragmented nature of memory and impermanence of being.

Sofya is a Seattle-based artist, and she received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, 2011. Recent solo shows include ‘it becomes a mountain’ at SOIL Gallery (2025), and ‘Of Bread and Salt' at Gallery 4Culture (2024) in Seattle, and group shows at Cornish College of the Arts Behnke Gallery, Carnation Gallery, and Mini Mart City Park. She was a 2024 Neddy Artist Award Painting finalist, and her work has received grants from 4Culture, Artist Trust, and Northwest Film Forum. Sofya was an artist-in-residence at AqTushetii in Omalo, Georgia 2024, and at Mineral School in Mineral, WA in 2025. Sofya is an artist-member of SOIL Gallery and a teaching artist in painting at Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle.

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Excited to be part of a cross-pollination show @carnationcontemporary in Portland with @soilart collective! Check it out if you’re in Portland - on view Nov 2-30!
My residency at @aqtushetii has been a magical month filled with wonderful people, painting, walks in the mountains, shifting light and mysterious fog, dogs, horses, mushrooms and so much more. My painting was focused on experimentation, failure and
Impressions, views and sensations at @aqtushetii residency for sept.
Burned by Other Suns: several illustrations in this book are paired with short animations, images come to life (activated with QR codes). $50 each, limited edition of 75, dm to purchase. 20% of sales donated to Ukrainian Institute, who are working