SEPTEMBER BARN DOOR GALLERY 2026
Please Return To:
Sophia Jakobson
September 5 - September 26
Opening Reception on Arts Night Out
In Please Return To:, I draw from landscapes that have shaped me, using the body and landscape as orientation devices to explore my experience occupying a queer body. The work serves as an archive– of the ever evolving effort to find home in my body, of the people and places that have held me, and the grief and joy of growing more fully into myself. In queering the landscape, the work asks for the viewer to engage their own body in space, drawing attention to how we construct naturalness and how these embedded assumptions construct possibilities for how bodies should appear and behave.
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Sophia Jakobson (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Their artwork is shaped by the landscapes they’ve lived in: Western Massachusetts, suburban New York, and the Swedish archipelago. Through mixed media paintings, sculpture, and textiles, Sophia explores themes of inhabitance: in a place, a body, in community, and queerness. In 2025, Sophia graduated from Mount Holyoke College as a Frances Perkins Scholar, where they double majored in art studio and sociology. Jakobson’s work has been shown throughout the Northeast. They have been awarded the 2025 Ruth E. Warfel Art Prize, The 2025 Leonard DeLonga Prize, and the 2024 Quabbin Arts Association Emerging Artist Scholarship.
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