Sofía Serpa Arango is a multidisciplinary artist based in South East London. Working across painting, sculpture, and textiles, her practice considers questions around identity, cultural liminality, and non-belonging.

The fantastical worlds she creates are shaped by a palimpsest of cultural imprints—Colombian costumbrismo, Germanic fairytales, American Cowboy Western—reflecting a lived experience as a 'third-culture' person. Material choices, such as walnut wood and hessian, reference rustic domesticity, while plasticity and toy aesthetics evoke childhood naiveté and suggest the fragility of such illusions. Working across oil painting, wood carving, and digital modeling, Serpa Arango crafts objects of veneration. Their surface allure, however, belies a deeper existential probing. Animated by kitsch conventions of repetition and camp theatricality, her practice stages meta-referential spaces characters to inhabit in various forms—sometimes (re)appearing as toy or puppet versions of themselves—to interrogate the intricacies of human existence.

In 2021 she was awarded the “Art Academy London Foundation Trustee Award”. Before focusing full-time on her creative practice, she obtained a first-class honors bachelor’s degree in International Relations from King’s College London. She is completing a BFA (Hons) in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London (2025).