Sofia
Klim.
Ara.




   


e: sofia.klim.ara@gmail.com
ig: @mydearladychap

more about me  






    Selected
    Works    


→ r/DesirePath
→ Just  Between You & Me

Live Wire
IM NOT SORRY
Felled
Dog Woods
Spitfire
Conditions of Two
A·side
Bad Sport
Tintypes
Wyoming
Mommary


Education 


⊹ Maryland Institute College of Art

Bachelor of Fine Art in Fiber (2025), Summa Cum Laude 


⊹ South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities

High School (2021), Visual Arts


Selected Exhibitions


* solo shows
** duo shows

2026
Living Records

Kinetic Kin


Alchemists


Residual Frequency BioBAT Art Space, Brooklyn, NY 

Neptune in June, Trans Art Fest, Portchester, NY

Eleventh Hour Art, Trans Art Fest, Brooklyn, NY

Flying House Art Collective, Baltimore, MD

2025 Pitted: Home at the Heart of an Empire Area 405, Baltimore, MDa FAIR
XOXO Gallery, Baltimore, MD
r/DesirePath**Mount Royal Station, MICA
MetamorphosisMount Royal Station, MICAIntertwinedMiddendorf Gallery, MICA

2024FROSH Week
XoXo Gallery, Baltimore, MD 

Salt of the Earth


On Account of a Method Middendorf Gallery, MICA

Main O Gallery, MICA
 Just Between You and Me*Gateway Gallery, MICA
It Feels Right to Me: An Exploration of the EroticMiddendorf Gallery, MICA
20232023 Juried
Undergraduate Exhibition
Decker Gallery, MICA

Still ProcessingMiddendorf Gallery, MICA 

2022Something BigMiddendorf Gallery, MICA

2021AnthillMiddendorf Gallery, MICA


Residencies, Research, & Workshops


2026DWL Air Resident, 
Praxis Fiber Workshop, OH

Steel for Jewelry - Elliot Keely
Baltimore Jewelry Center, MD
2025

Waxworking - J Diamond
Baltimore Jewelry Center, MD

CMYK workshop - Liz Ensz + Heather Mackenzie,
LMRM Chicago, IL

SPARC retreat,
Society of Inclusive Blacksmiths, Touchstone Center for Craft, PA

Exquisite Warps Workshop - Section 4: File Design for Painted Warps - Meagan Smith,
LMRM Chicago, IL

Living Records - Research Team
Biodesign Challenge Finalist
MOMA, NY
2024 Metals + Jewelry 1 - J Diamond
Baltimore Jewelry Center, MD

Anodizing Titanium - J Diamond
Baltimore Jewelry Center, MD

Sculptural Fibers Workshop - Gabe Duggan,
Penland School of Craft, NC

In situ Residency,
Pillow Fort Arts Center, NY
2023 Forged By Design Workshop - Mike Rossi,
Penland School of Craft, NC

Weaving And Robotics Producing Electronic Devices (W.A.R.P.E.D.) - Research Team - Dr. Cindy Harnett, Harnett Labs, University of Louisville J.B. Speed School of Engineering, KY


Fellowships, Awards & Scholarships 


Winter 2026 Scholarship  
Baltimore Jewelry Center, MD 
[2026]

Outstanding Art Prize - Biodesign Challenge
MoMA, NY - [2025]

Fall 2025 Scholarship  
Baltimore Jewelry Center, MD 
[2025]

Fall 2024 Scholarship  
Baltimore Jewelry Center, MD 
[2024]

E/Intern Fellowship in Creative Entrepreneurship
Joseph Meyerhoff Center for Career Development, MD
[2024]

  

IM NOT SORRY

images courtesy of Neptune in June
steel, nuts, bolts, oil-based paint
6’ x 6’ x 4’’
2025

pictured alongside Cynthia Chang’s Spit Swap

I’M NOT SORRY explores the tension between desire and shame, and the freedom that comes from choosing indulgence.

A bright red corral, inspired by hay bale feeders in grazing fields, becomes a metaphor for cyclical longing. Like a carousel, it suggests a futile chase, recalling animals circling endlessly for something just out of reach. This repetition reflects the desperation, frustration, and quiet humiliation often tied to wanting.

The work resists imposed ideas of shame and instead embraces desire as something to move through rather than suppress. Encircling panels of pixelated flowers and scattered “I LOVE U” fragments reveal themselves only through motion, asking the viewer to circle the piece and participate in its loop.

The corral becomes both a site of enticement and release, where judgment and allure coexist, and where allowing yourself to want feels like freedom.

The original piece held a haybale within the corral, that was a jacquard woven fabric that had spliced images of Madonna riding a mechanical bull during her song Human Nature- a song on refusing to apologize for her existence, through the erotic and the sexual, finding it to be a double standard to indulge in her sexuality and that these were all natural things. Utilizing this same mindset, but with the reframing of cows and cattle, Madonna Complex/IM NOT SORRY asks what is human nature, what is animalistic nature, and how can we blur the lines to find the satisfaction in being true to ourselves.