SOPHIA LE FRAGA

EDUCATION

2025 California Institute of the Arts, MFA: Fine Art
2016 Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College (Photography, matriculated)
2011 New York University, BA: Linguistics, Poetry

EXHIBITIONS

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Small Audience, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2024 Patricia Casiragy, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2020 Maybe More Than Love, Ochi, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Sophia Le Fraga: Other Titles, Büro Broken Dimanche, Berlin, DE
2011 Two Works by Sophia Le Fraga, Büro Broken Dimanche, Berlin, DE

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 1TB Verbatim: Los Angeles Timing 2013-2025, Gene’s Dispensary @ Leroy’s, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Beta Biennial, Timișoara, ROU
2024 Other Places Art Fair, Gene’s Dispensary, San Pedro, CA
2024 Crosstown Traffic, HVW8, Berlin, DE
2024 Think Big, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2024 LANGUAGE, DECIPHERMENT, AND TRANSLATION - FROM THEN TO NOW, Grolier Club, New York, NY
2020 5-7-5, United Arts Theater at the Ace Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Walt Whitman’s Words: Inspiring Artists Today, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
2018 Liquid Love, Gas Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Wanted Duchamps, Lage Egal, Berlin, DE
2017 p0es1s, Kunsttempel, Kassel, DE
2017 THIS KNOWN WORLD: Spontaneous Particulars of the Poetic Research Bureau, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Cold Open Verse, Knockdown Center, Queens, NY
2016 Works Off Paper, SALTS Gallery, Basel, CH
2016 Shifters, Art in General, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Disembodied States, SFMoMA Open Space, Digital Exhibition
2015 Enzo: VIP (Vacant Intellectual Property), Inert, New York, NY
2015 Public Poem Pattern, for Fia Backström: Part III, The Artist's Institute, New York, NY
2015 Belated Soul, Pretty Days, Brooklyn, NY
2015 I'M Ten, IMT Gallery, London, UK
2015 Eugen Gomringer &, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, DE
2015 E L A S T I C P R A C T I C E, Clifford Chance Annual Global Pride Exhibition, New York, NY
2015 First Look: Poetry as Practice, New Museum (Online)
2015 Maximum Sideline: Postscript, Proxy, Providence, RI
2015 SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY
2014 Miami Project, Jenkins-Johnson Gallery, Miami, FL
2014 Paris Photo, Jenkins-Johnson Gallery, Paris, France
2014 Self-Published, Cohn Drennan Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2014 Itself Not So, Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York, NY
2014 The Printed Room, SALTS Gallery, Basel, CH
2014 The Last Brucennial, Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York, NY
2014 Poetry Will Be Made By All!, LUMA/Westbau, Zürich, CH
2014 Online/Offline: Encoding Everyday Life, Vorspiel Transmediale, Berlin, Germany

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS
2021 SNACKS (blush press)
2016 Other Titles by Sophia Le Fraga (If a Leaf Falls)
2015 literallydead (Spork Press)
2013 I RL, YOU RL (minutesBOOKS; Troll Thread)
2012 I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE INTERNET (Keep This Bag Away From Children Press)

MULTIMEDIA
2020 Windows95 (editor)
2018 No Issue (founding editor)

SOME PERFORMANCES & TALKS

2024 Casual Encountersz, Fulcrum Press, Los Angeles, CA
2024 Queer Poetry Reading, Instituto Cervantes de Los Ángeles, Los Angeles, CA
2022 One of the Dozens, Beyond Baroque
2019 Stonewall 50 Presented by The Academy of American Poets, Lambda Literary, and The Poetry Project, The Poetry Project, NY
2018 Segue Reading Series, Zinc Bar, New York, NY
2018 Sunday Sessions: Anti-Bodies, presented by Topical Cream, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY
2017 From Concrete to Liquid to Spoken Worlds to the Word, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, CH
2017 A Weekend Fix, Tropez, Berlin, DE
2017 THIS KNOWN WORLD: Spontaneous Particulars of the Poetic Research Bureau, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
2016 of poetry, (curatorial) Participant Inc., New York, NY
2016 What is it that comes crawling in the morning?, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
2016 Walt Whitman: The Legacy Continues in the Book Arts, Central Library, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Deferred Consumption, Triple Canopy, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Again! Again! Again!, La MaMa Galleria, New York, NY
2015 Performa Poetry Series, PERFORMA15, New York, NY
2015 Greater NY, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY
2015 Rapport de Face à Face, Hester, New York, NY
2015 Artists Space Reading Series, Artists Space Books & Talks, New York, NY
2014 Can I Read You a Poem?, NADA; Bas Fisher Invitational; UNTITLED.; Miami Beach, FL
2014 Hans Ulrich Obrist — Ways of Curating — Book Launch, Swiss Institute, New York, NY
2014 not_I on Eurotour, Rijeka - Zadar - Liznjan - Bratislava - Berlin
2014 Contemporary Poetry, NADA New York, New York, NY
2014 Poetry & Poetics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2014 Digital and Multimedia Poetics, New York University, New York, NY
2014 Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2014 Queer Poetics, Naropa University, Boulder, CO
2014 Ambients, Peninsula Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Poetry Will Be Made By All!, LUMA/Westbau, Zürich, CH
2014 Single Malt Scotch Slam, Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY
2014 The Poetry Project, St. Mark's Church, New York, NY

RESIDENCIES

2024 Maracuyá, Tijuana, MX
2015 Ace Hotel: ACE AIR, New York, NY
2015 Interrupt III: Brown University; Providence, RI
2014 89plus: Poetry Will Be Made by All!, LUMA/Westbau, Zürich, CH

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2025 Empieza la Noche at Cantina Ardalio, Co-Curator
2023 Language Garden at David Horvitz’s Garden, co-curator (2023-Present)
2020 Whittier College, visiting lecture and reading
2019 Scripps College, Conversation with Stephanie Jimenez
2019 UCLA, Surveying Poetry Online Today: Contemporary American Poetry, visiting lecture and performance
2016 Imperial Matters, Founder and Senior Editor (2013-Present)
2015 Segue Reading Series, Curator (Winter '15)
2015 MoMA, Live Translation - Diamela Eltit: CADA and the Lasting Chilean Relationship between Art and Literature
2015 BHQFU, Poetry Faculty (Fall '15): Liquid Poetry
2015 BHQFU, Poetry Faculty (Spring '15): The Poetic Act
2014 BHQFU, Poetry Faculty (Fall '14):  The Only War that Matters Is the War Against the Imagination
2014 Gallatin School, New York University: Digital and Multimedia Poetics, lecture
2014 Poetry & Poetics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2014 Harvard University: Re-Inventing the Workshop, performance and lecture