Sophie Chao is an artist based between Pittsburgh and Baltimore
Her practice combines oil painting and textiles into large scale mixed media works.
She makes satirical work that uses male-dominated American iconography. Focusing on Western pop culture references, and hyper-masculine figures to define american culture;Dissecting this concept from an Asian American feminine perspective.
By combining these concepts she creates work that explores the intersections of culture and identity, within the context of the westernized world.
