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Art Faculty

Nancy M. Sophy
Instructor, Painting Area Coordinator
Rowan University | Department of Art
College of Communication and Creative Arts
Office: Westby Hall 209 D
Email: sophy@rowan.edu

 

Nancy Sophy holds an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Art, and is an active member of the art community in Philadelphia and surrounding area. Nancy’s paintings and works on paper explore a range of both traditional and non-traditional material processes, questions of heritage and identity. Her work has been included in significant regional group exhibitions, including First Look: Collecting for Philadelphia at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Art of the State at the State Museum of Pennsylvania, and with solo exhibitions at the Seraphin Gallery, Fleisher Art Memorial and the Center for Emerging Visual Artists in Philadelphia, and the Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington. She is a past Artist Fellow of the Center for Emerging Visual Artists and has received grants from the Leeway Foundation, Change Inc., Artists’ Fellowship Inc., and the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation. Nancy’s work is in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.