Sofia
Klim.
Ara.




   


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

more about me  






    Selected
    Works    


→ r/DesirePath
→ Just  Between You & Me

Live Wire
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/duo shows

2026
Living Records (forthcoming)

Alchemists (forthcoming)


Kinetic Kin (forthcoming)


Residual Frequency BioBAT Art Space, New York City, NY 

Eleventh Hour Art, Trans Art Fest, Brooklyn, NY

Neptune in June, Trans Art Fest, Portchester, 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 EarthMiddendorf Gallery, MICA
Just Between You and Me*Gateway 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]

  

r/DesirePath


Madonna Complex/IM NOT SORRY
Wild Thing
Friendship Knot
Intruder/Voyeur



Exhibition made in collaboration with Eleanor Koster


Mount Royal Station, 
Baltimore, MD

May 2025


Images courtesy of Mathilde Mujanayi
     ~ Dedicated to the paths that humans prefer, rather than the paths that humans create ~

    Through the physical and digital landscape, we interweave ourselves into a queered history of the loom, just another meeting of warp to weft. In reflecting on our experiences growing up in the American South and Midwest, we find that we must trailblaze our own definitions of consumption and desire. The work reflects through selfies, soul connections, and spacial interruptions/entanglements. Being sexy and shy and insecure and hungry, we navigate between the public and the private orchestrating social cues/queues. We bastardize materials found within the commons: the sidewalk, the field, the internet, the bedroom to orient towards queer daydreaming. The path we’ve found has no definitives, no ends in-sight, just continued discovery and renewal.

    We invite you to forge your own path, and experience wandering into what is rooted at your core.






Madonna Complex/IM NOT SORRY


TC2 Jacquard weaving, steel, nuts, bolts
6’ x 6’ x 4’
2025










Intruder/Voyeur


TC2 Jacquard weaving, steel, retired climbing rope
80” x 27”
2025













Wild Thing


TC2 Jacquard weaving, steel, retired climbing rope
72” x 32”
2025