Photography by Kalpesh Lathigra
Bio
Sonya Derviz (b. 1994, Moscow, RU) lives and works in London, UK, since 2006. She graduated with a BA in Fine Art from Slade School of Fine Art in 2018. Solo exhibitions include: Near and Far, Sherbet Green, London (2025); Closer, Sherbet Green, London (2023); and Pas de Corps, V.O. Curations, London (2018). Group exhibitions include: Conditions, Soft Commodity at The Shop, Sadie Coles HQ, London (2025); Soft Focus, Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal (2024); Bury a Friend, Roman Road, London (2023); Into My Arms, Sherbet Green, London (2023); First Light, curated by Hector Campbell, Collective Ending, London (2022); Inside Out, The Artist Room, London (2022); It Seems So Long Ago, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles (2020); Minimal | Maximal, LVH Art, London (2019); Parfum d’épines, Phillips x V.O Curations, Paris (2019); and Paintings by, Alex Vardaxoglou, London (2019).
Education
2014 - 2018, BA Fine Art,
Slade School of Fine Art, UCL
2013 - 2014, Foundation Diploma,
Central Saint Martins
Solo / two person exhibitions:
2025
Conditions, Soft Commodity at The Shop, Sadie Coles HQ, London
Sonya Derviz and Joel Wycherley
Text by Phin Jennings
Near and Far, Sherbet Green, London
Solo show
Text by Theo de Luca
2024
Sonya Derviz and Li Li Ren presented by Sherbet Green
Art-o-rama, Marseille
2023
Closer, Sherbet Green, London
Solo show
2022
The eyes have all the seeming, of a demon's that is dreaming, DB Gallery, London
Solo show
Curated by Sayori Radda
First Light, Collective Ending, London
Lewis Brander and Sonya Derviz
Organised by Hector Campbell
2018
Pas De Corps, V.O Curations, London
Solo show
Organised by V.O Curations with the support of Outset Contemporary Art Fund
Group exhibitions:
2024
Exhibition 58, PM/AM, London
Gaia Ozwyn, Helen Teede, Hwi Hahm, Katherine Qiyu Su, Mia Chaplin and Sonya Derviz
Picturing the Animal, Sherbet Green, London
Sonya Derviz, Sof'ya Shpurova, Danilo Stojanovic and Evangeline Turner
Curated by Sonya Derviz and Mazzy-Mae Green
Soft Focus, Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal
Sonya Derviz, Merveille Kelekele Kelekele, Rachel Lancaster, Lyne Lapointe, Sam Lipp, Nour Malas, Karice Mitchell, Athena Papadopoulos, Sequoia Scavullo, Adelisa Selimbašić, Shahin Sharafaldin, Manuel Axel Strain
2023
Bury a Friend, Roman Road, London
Johanna Bath, Sonya Derviz, Jack Laver and Mia Vallance
Recursion | Excursion, Split Gallery, London
Ellie Antoniou, Marco Bizzarri, Sonya Derviz, Xiaochi Dong, Tim H H Lee
Into My Arms, Sherbet Green, London
Sonya Derviz, My-Lan Hoang-Thuy, Shamiran Istifan and Li Li Ren
2022
Tomorrow's Woman, Natasha Arselan Gallery, London
Genevieve Cohn, Rebecca Harper, Lauryn Levett, Riikka Sormunen, Grace Bromley, Tirtzah Bassel, Rhiannon Salisbury, Ellen Akimoto, Sonya Derviz, Alexi Marshall, Florine Imo, Paige Perkins, Natasha Wright, Emma Hapner, Emeli Theander
Inside Out, The Artist Room, London
Sophie Mei Birkin, Max Boyla, Sonya Derviz, Antoine Leisure, Kin-Ting Li, Ding Shilun and Scott Young
Pathways on Paper, South Parade, London
Emii Alrai, Zoë Annesley, Joshua Armitage, Ned Armstrong, Paul Barlow, Rob Branigan, Zoë Carlon, Charlotte Edey, Alice Delhanty, Sonya Derviz, Rhian Harris-Mussi, Tom Hardwick-Allan, James Fuller, Patrick Michael Fitzgerald, Grace Lee, Simon Linington, Jack Jubb, James Jessiman, Kenneth Winterschladen, Sui Kim, Ryan Kish, Kin-ting Li, James Lomax, Motoko Ishibashi, Adam Glibbery, Karolina Glusiec, Jakob Rowlinson, John Robertson, Struan Teague, Holly Mills, Ranald Macdonald, Aimée Parrott, Ted McKenzie, Andrew North, Siggi Sekira, Thirza Smith, Ellie Pratt, Ben Raz, Ian Homerston, Anna Gonzalez Noguchi, Poppy Jones, Hannah Thual, Jonathan Pinn, Charlie Godet Thomas, Will Thomson, Henrik Potter, Mimi Hope and Ben Galyas, Erica Eyres, Amelie Peace, Nat Faulkner, Yage Guo, Jos Nyreen, Matthew Peers, Jack Otway
2020
It Seems So Long Ago, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles
Ann Greene Kelly, Dan Herschlein, Heidi Hahn, Kent O’Connor, Maja Ruznic, Patricia Ayres, Sonya Derviz and Waldemar Zimbelmann
2019
Minimal | Maximal, What's Up London by Lawrence Van Hagen, London
Johnny Abrahams, Gabriele Adomaityte, Carl Andre, Tom Anholt, Stefan Bruggemann, Daniel Buren, Ha Chong-hyun, George Condo, Mary Corse, Dadamaino, Sonya Derviz, Do Ho Sun, Anna Fasshauer, Dan Flavin, Dorian Gaudin, Yann Gerstberger, Sam Gilliam, Simon Hantai, Robert Irvin, Tarik Kiswanson, Franz Kline, Alicja Kwade, Mimi Lauter, Martin Leonard, Beth Letain, Enrique Martinez Celaya, Robert Morris, Olivier Mosset, Sam Moyer, Frank Nitsche, Santiago Parra, Ian Wallace, Gary Webb and Stanley Whitney
Best New Now, Auc Art x Artsy
A group exhibition including a handpicked selection of works by AucArt’s most promising recent graduate artists
Parfum d'epines, Phillips x V.O Curations, Paris
Muriel Abadie, Jean-Marie Appriou, Robert Brambora, Claude Bellegarde, Sonya Derviz, Daiga Grantina, Oda Jaune, Victor Man and Pedro Wirz
Just as when the night, Light Eye Mind, London
Sonya Derviz, Kin-Ting Li and Mariann Metsis
2018
Not another degree show, Alex Vardaxoglou for Kensington and Chelsea Art Weekend, London, 2018
Finlay Abbott Ellwood, Lewis Brander, Sonya Derviz, Jacob Littlejohn and Charlie Lockyer
Paintings by, Alex Vardaxoglou, London
Finlay Abbott Ellwood, Lewis Brander, Sonya Derviz, Kin-Ting Li, Arthur Poujois, Camilla Roma, Carlotta Roma and Io Worthington
2017
The composition has been reversed, UCL Art Museum, London
Sonya Derviz, Cyrus Hung, Eloise Lawson, Amanda Rice and Grace Richardson
2016
Lemons, Okra and Goutweed, Embassy Tea Gallery, London
An exhibition of works organised by Slade Students
Residencies:
Good Eye Projects, London, 2025
Arts Connected Residency, Bodrum, Turkey, 2024
Interviews and features:
For the inaugural piece in the Sherbet Green features section, photographer Kalpesh Lathigra and writer Ella Slater visit Sonya Derviz in the studio
June 2024
Curatorial Affairs, On Dissevered Dreams: Sonya Derviz in Conversation with Mazzy-Mae Green
July 2023
The Shock of the Now Issue 29, Featured Exhibition: Lewis Brander and Sonya Derviz, 'First Light', Collective Ending HQ by Hector Campbell
February 2022
Floor Magazine, Issue 21, Sonya Derviz interview by Stephen Feather
August 2019
Awards:
UCL Dean’s List, 2018
Stanbury Prize, 2018
UCL Art Museum Award, 2017
Links and publications:
Eleven Emerging Artists on the Rise, LVH Art, 2025
Downtown Belgravia, Around London Gallery Weekend 2025, Artforum, 2025
Dialogue | Sonya Derviz, brave Projects, 2025
Art-o-rama, the Sun-Kissed Darling of Europe’s Art Fairs, Ocula, 2024
Le Quotidien de l'Art, 2024
Review Art-o-rama, FAD Magazine, 2024
The Steidz, 2024
That's interesting, Mazzy-Mae Green, FAD, 2023
The top 5 exhibitions to see after Frieze week, FAD, 2023
On Dissevered Dreams: Sonya Derviz in Conversation with Mazzy-Mae Green, Curatorial Affairs, July 2023
The Shock of the Now - Issue 69, 2023
Into My Arms at Sherbet Green, FAD Magazine 2023
Inside Out Exhibition of the week, Spittle, 2022
The dead end of just vibing, Spittle, 2022
The best exhibitions to visit in March, Bricks magazine, 2022
Collective Ending presents Lewis Brander and Sonya Derviz, First Light, FAD Magazine, 2022
Three shows to see in London this weekend, FAD Magazine, 2022
The Shock of the Now Issue 29 First Light Lewis Brander and Sonya Derviz, 2022
Interview with Sonya Derviz, Floor Magazine, 2019
Sonya Derviz, Interview, Heap Magazine, 2019
Best things to see at Frieze 2019, GQ, 2019
Art subject: Sonya Derviz by Aleksei Zimin, Zima Magazine, 2019
Time to wake up yet, print publication edited by Renyi NG and Catalina Arzani. The publication includes works by Isaac Lythgoe, Stefania Batoeva, Sophie Jung, Marsi Rex, etc. Available via Cordova Gallery, Almanac Gallery, Jupiter Woods, Ex. Directory, Sorbs Gallery, XYZ Collective, etc., 2018
Discovery Channels, Financial Times, 2018
2018, published by Sonya Derviz and Harley Kuyck Cohen to coincide with the Slade Show 2018. The publication includes works and texts by Renyi NG, Sana Serkebaeva, Madeleine Pledge, Joe Highton, Kin-Ting Li, 2018
Contact:
sonyaderviz@gmail.com