About

Sophie Wang (or sometimes Shuf, she/her) is a researcher, educator, artist, and zine gremlin currently based in the Twin Cities. She makes zines/comics/art that bring a critical power lens to science, technology, epistemology, and forms of knowledge-making, and an experiential lens to her second generation Chinese American experience and other parts of her life. Her work covers topics ranging from equity and exclusion in science museums to campaign demands against predictive policing in LA. She is a co-founder of Free Radicals, an activist collective at the intersection of science and social justice.

Previous and current lives have included marketing and development work for community-based nonprofits, collections management and preparation work in vertebrate paleontology, stage management for arts programming/open mics, curriculum and workshop development and facilitation around history/philosophy/sociology of science and epistemology, and baking an absurd number of plum crumbles.

BA Pomona College - Biology, Asian American Studies minor
MSc University College London - Science, Technology, and Society

Collections

I am honored to have had my art books and zines acquired by collections across the country, including but not limited to the following. Please reach out to me if your institution is interested in acquiring any of my work.

Hennepin County Library, Minneapolis, MN
Maryland Institute College of Art, Decker Library, Baltimore, MD
Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN
Rhode Island School of Design, Fleet Library, Providence, RI
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Flaxman Library Special Collections, Chicago, IL
Smith College, Mortimer Rare Book Collection, Northampton, MA
St. Olaf College, Distinctive Collections Engagement Department, St. Paul, MN
Stanford University, Bowes Art & Architecture Library, Stanford, CA
Swarthmore College Libraries, Swarthmore, PA
University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Virginia Commonwealth University, James Branch Cabell Library Special Collections and Archives, Richmond, VA

Awards/Residencies/Exhibitions

2023 New Editions 2023, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN
2024 Celebrating Lunar New Year, XIA Gallery and Cafe, St. Paul, MN
2024 Third Annual Book Arts Exhibition, Friedli Gallery, St. Paul, MN
2024 Pine Needles Artist in Resident, St. Croix Watershed Research Station, Marine on St. Croix, MN
2024 Semifinalist, 2024 MCBA Prize, Minneapolis, MN