Sofía Serpa Arango

“Que Dios bendiga esta casa” Oil on wood, bedazzles, glitter, sand, ceramics, chicken wire, plastic crucifix Some install pictures of recent work I made for @bewilderhythmic ‘s SCRAP show ! We held the exhibition in a disused warehouse in south East London & it was really cool to be given the opportunity to help activate disused space in our city via art/making/showcasing/community-building <3 Shoutout to all th amazing artists that helped make this show happen! 🎀 🧎‍♀️‍➡️ 🛠️ 🚙 🪷 A few notes on the work: I’ve had glitter on my mind for a long time. For this work, I was drawn to accessible (“cheaper”) craft materials to create something that functions as a spiritual, devotional object. I’ve been thinking a lot about “zhushing” up a space, and about the idea of carrying the home with you. In this sense, I’ve been particularly inspired by personalized devotional objects—often depictions of Jesus or the Virgin Mary—in Latin American households, especially in Mexico and Colombia. I used various forms of glitter, glue, bedazzles, and architectural sand to create the bright border framing my depiction of the Virgin Mary. To avoid interfering with the building’s architecture, I hung the work with chicken wire and interloped a few personal artifacts into the installation. A broken ceramic “Chiva” car (a rural Colombian folk artifact) was stripped for parts—its passengers now hover above the Virgin Mary’s reliquary, held together by vine-like wire scaffolding that hugs a solitary white flower and a miniature plastic crucifix. Elsewhere in the room, fuchsia flowers are hung on the walls, and dying white flowers sit in a vase of pink water, adorned with a broken rosary.. 📿💗🪷🤲💋

“Todo se lo lleva el viento” is a painting based on the likeness of mariachi sensation Vicente Fernández, cast here as the tragic hero of the scene. Through him, I’m thinking about the aging starlet and the fleetingness of fame and adoration. It’s also a meditation on the transitory nature of love and existence. The title, Todo se lo lleva el viento (“The wind carries it all away”), is lifted from the chorus of Maná’s “Mariposa Traicionera” (“Treacherous Butterfly”), which tells a story of malamor—of love, betrayal, and letting go. “The wind carries it all away” becomes an acknowledgment of impermanence: everything changes, everything fades. Relationships and fame are temporary experiences and made all the more precious because of that. In this piece, the archetype of the mariachi strong-man cowboy is subtly unsettled. Pop-y colors, pomp, and an almost psychedelic flair counterbalance the deep wistfulness of the portrait. Vicente sits in a frame of profound isolation, surrounded by a patterned background that weaves pop iconography of love into a tapestry of flowers and fireworks. 🌺 “Todo se lo lleva el viento” 80 x 120 cm Oil on canvas 2025 I’ve also added a few work in progress pictures of this painting as it was coming into being … swipe swipe all the way through to see those

Some shots from my Degree Show “𝒫𝑜𝓁𝒾𝒸𝒶𝓇𝓅𝑜 𝓎 𝑜𝓉𝓇𝑜𝓈 𝒸𝓊𝑒𝓃𝓉𝑜𝓈 𝒫𝑒𝓇𝑒𝑔𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑜𝓈”. Thank you to everyone who came by and everyone helped make it happen! ⭐️Special thanks to my amazing helpers @abijanread and @jiashengmai whose blood, sweat and tears turned the space into a proper showroom! ⭐️⭐️A HUGE thanks to the amazing tutors and staff a at Goldsmiths—special thanks to the Ceramics, 3D print, Casting, Wood and Media APAs— without whom none of this would have been possible! ⭐️⭐️⭐️Thank you also to the exhibitions team at Goldsmiths for making our curatorial dreams come true! ⭐️⭐️And FINALLY thank you to all my friends and the whole CLASS OF 2025 for making these past three years so special! 🥹

Found this beautiful book in my late grandfather’s collection. It features 200 gelatin silver prints taken all across Colombia by Robert M. Gerstmann in the late 1800s / early 1900s and published in 1951. I love the ink splotches and light coffee stains on the cover…Swipe for a selection of some favorite pages

@sofia.serpa.arango Schatzsuche, 2024, Hand carved walnut wood frame, white resin and oil pastel, 24 x 22 x 3cm #sofiaserpaarango 𝘼 𝙍𝙤𝙤𝙢 𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙍𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙢𝙗𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝘽𝙖𝙘𝙠 21st – 26th of April 2026 90 Chalton Street, London, NW1 1HJ Tues - Sat, 12 - 6 Sun, 11 - 2 Please email [email protected] or dm to enquire about any of the works in the exhibition 🤍 Documentation by @jacobsirkin 𓅪

La niña con ojos de mi padre Oil on cork board, 14.6 x 10 cm This is a portrait I made of my grandmother. The title translates to “the girl with my father’s eyes”. I made the work back in September of last year, it was the final painting I created for my solo show at Lewisham Arthouse. But I’m choosing to share it today, on the 9th of April, as it would have been her 90th birthday today. María Cristina Fonnegra (1936-2018)

A few weeks ago, we had the pleasure of interviewing artist Sofia Serpa Arango in her London studio. Across painting and sculpture, Sofia explores the sense of non-belonging often experienced by third-culture kids, and the ongoing search for identity that follows. These emotions are powerfully embodied in the recurring cowboy figure who roams the different vectors of her work. More insights will be revealed in the full video, coming next week. Stay tuned! ✨ #contemporaryart #visualart #artpractice #artiststudio #londonart

It’s January and we’re turning the page on the roladex

Four days into 2026 and I want to take a moment to share some highlights from this past year…2025 was a crazy one! Here are some favorite moments 1+ 2: the birth of my duckboot featuring @__dawi 3: the final form of my last studio at @goldsmithsart 4: some keychains I made for @tristecolline._ 5: Getting shortlisted for the Freelands Painting Prize (S/o to stan for helping me transport my big a$$ paintings) 6: my cherub boys 7: the creation of my magnum opus (jk) featuring @jack.w.white on our studio scooter 8: first time ever showing work in Lisbon with @thetinyartgallerythehague @o_s_t_r_a ✏️ 9: my degree show work 💗🥹 ft my dad on the look out 10: mom & dad (pictured) helping me deinstall my degree show!! 11: my first day at my @lewishamarthouse residency shot by @madeleine.co.oke with the painting I was about to send off to the lovely @taetaetots 🤗😳💗 12:The last day of my residency commemorated with a Baby Freeze in front of my new work 13: loading my (still wet) paintings into @bu_tch ‘s van 14: “El Color de las Cosas Idas” install day! 15: Opening night 🥹 16: PUB OPENING AFTERPARTY 17: Getting my @popeye_magazine_official in the mail! First ever feature + interview in a magazine 🎯🎯 18: Showing my paintings at @thegeraldmooregallery alongside some incredible artists <33 19: new beginnings…. Joined the team at @gasworkslondon & Started my artist fellowship at @cglartschool ! 20: Moved into a new studio with @v22studios under their studio scholarship program 💗 There’s so many more cool things that happened but these are just a few that stood out! Thank u to all the incredible people that I got to meet and work with and learn from this past year! Couldn’t have done any of it without my friends homies and “collaborators” 😚😚😚… here’s to more scheming and art making in 2026🧚🧚🧚

And they say romance is dead (malamor 1) Late night at the studio Ballpoint on recycled paper

In da feels Swing swing, sad house, palm tree (From the purple sketchbook I got at the cornerstore)

Notes from Mexico.. 📝 accompanied by vocals by the one and only Juan Gabriel … Mexico was such an inspiration. I spent a lot of time listening to some serious tunes (Juan Gabriel, Chavella Vargaz, Luis Miguel and the one and only Vicente Fernández on heavy rotation) taking pictures of absolutely everything & dreaming up plans for my next project …🎀📂 Mexico…volveré muy pronto 🏹💓🇲🇽