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




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