Sophia Callahan is an artist, researcher and maker originally from Hermosa Beach, California, and in New York for the last ten years. Callahan’s work is often grounded in the research process and has manifested in installations, writings and zines. More recently, it has evolved into more tangible and textual pieces from weavings to oil paintings, and working in my community garden with wild edibles and flowers. Their work attempts to shed light on ideas that have previously been misunderstood or overlooked in mass culture.

For example, Callahan has made books about digital privacy in the era of Post-Edward Snowden, installations around climate shifts in the South East Asian tropics and publications and workshops around the multi-generational effects of Japanese American Incarceration During WWII.

More recently, they have investigated silenced narratives around symbols and mythological archetypes in relationship to consumerist culture, as well as researching alternative modalities to heal the human body in the face of the American food and medical, industrial complex. Callahan strives to broaden the edges of incomplete dominant narratives in hopes of expanding perspectives and strengthening relationships between ideas, people and moments in history.