Sophie L Brenneman
email: sophie.brenneman@gmail.com
instagram: @sophie.b.studio

Education
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA.                                   2017
MFA
The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS                                       2015
BFA, Summa Cum Laude
The University of Georgia, Cortona, Italy                                                                    2014
Studio Art, Lamar Dodd School of Art Studies Abroad Program
 
Experience
Assistant Teaching Professor of Visual Arts, Penn State University, Altoona, PA     2019 -
Instructor, Visual Art Studies Dept., Penn State Altoona, Altoona, PA                        2019
Assistant to the Dean of the School of Fine Arts, PAFA, Philadelphia, PA                 2017-2018
Program Coordinator, Currents: Summer Residency at PAFA, Philadelphia, PA    2017

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Drawing Dept, PAFA, Philadelphia, PA                       2017
PAFA High School After School Studio Arts Program, Figure Drawing Instructor,
Philadelphia, PA                                                                                                                         2016
The Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, Assistant Artist to Muralist Betsy Casañas,
Philadelphia, PA                                                                                                                         2016
The Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, Mural Intern, Philadelphia, PA                       2016
Teaching Assistant to Mark Blavat, Post Baccalaureate Seminar, Phila., PA             2016
Studio Art Instructor, C. Barton McCann School of Art, Petersburg, PA                     2015
 
Awards + Lectures + Publications
The Quiet Book | Booooooom Publishing                                                                          2022
International Drawing Annual | Vol. 14 | Manifest Press                                                  2021
Guest Panelist, Artists in Schools and Arts Organizations
            The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS                                    2021
Guest Panelist, Discussing Diverse Pathways into Teaching
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA                                     2021
Honorable Mention, The Figure, The In Art Gallery                                                          2021
Emerging Artist in Residence, Penn State Altoona, Altoona, PA                                  2019
Fine Arts Venture Fund Grant Recipient                                                                             2017
Cover Art for Memorious: A Literary Journal of New Verse and Fiction                      2015
Cover Art for Câlisse, Farewell Black Sheep, Portland, OR                                              2015
Outstanding Student Award, The Univ. of Southern Miss, Hattiesburg, MS              2014 & 2015
Best in Show, The Univ. of Southern Mississippi Annual Juried Student Show        2014
First Place in Painting, The Univ. of Southern Miss., Annual Juried Student Show 2014
 
Selected Exhibitions
The Figure, The In Art Gallery, virtual exhibition
            Juror: Victor Wang                                                                                                       2021
Visual Art Faculty Exhibition, Penn State Altoona, Altoona, PA                                       2021
Typos + Spills + Broken Glass, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
           Jurors: Melissa Joseph and Emmitt Smith                                                        2020
Building Houses In Our Homes, Spillway Gallery, Philadelphia, PA                               2019
Woodmere Annual 76th Juried Exhibition, Woodmere Museum, Phila., PA
  
            Juror: Eileen Neff                                                                                                         2019
Emerging Artist In Residence Exhibition, Penn State Altoona, Altoona, PA                2019
Self-Titled, Kitchen Table Gallery, Philadelphia, PA                                                             2019
Unmediated, Tuttleman Gallery, Penna. Academy of the Fine Arts, Phila., PA.          2018
When I Are We, Solo Exhibition, HCAC, Huntingdon, PA                                                  2018

Emerging Artists Exhibition, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA                   2017
National Juried Painting Exhibition, Univ. of Southern Miss., Hattiesburg, MS
         
            Juror: Peter Van Dyck                                                                                                  2017
Confluence: Circle, Serpent, Synchronicity, Forge & Finish Gallery, Phila., PA.            2017
Playbook, On Stellar Rays, New York, NY                                                                                   
            Jurors: Josephine Halverson & Didier William                                                2017
Annual Student Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Phila., PA        2017
The Figure: Contemporary Mediums, Site: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
            Juror: Barbara A. MacAdam                                                                                2017
Our Bodies, Ourselves, Gallery 128, PAFA, Phila., PA                                                           2016
War and Rumors of War, Gallery 128, PAFA, Philadelphia, PA                                         2016
Canary In The Coal Mine, Exhibitions Lab, PAFA, Philadelphia, PA                                2016
Bodies, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA                                                                        2016
JOINT, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA                                                                    2015