Sonya Lacey completed an MFA through Auckland University’s Elam School of Fine Arts and is the Programme Leader Postgraduate, School of Fine Arts at Whitecliffe.
Sonya’s recent research has focused on architectures of work, rest, and restlessness, and the physiological consequences of abstractions such as time structures and the work environment. She works with media including moving image, sculpture, writing, and print, among others. Often, her studio activities involve dismantling and redeploying a technology in order to physically access the ways by which it becomes psychically or physiologically active.
Sonya Lacey completed an MFA through Auckland University’s Elam School of Fine Arts and is the Programme Leader Postgraduate, School of Fine Arts at Whitecliffe.
Sonya’s recent research has focused on architectures of work, rest, and restlessness, and the physiological consequences of abstractions such as time structures and the work environment. She works with media including moving image, sculpture, writing, and print, among others. Often, her studio activities involve dismantling and redeploying a technology in order to physically access the ways by which it becomes psychically or physiologically active.
Lacey’s exhibition Weekend was nominated for The Walters Prize 2021 and was exhibited at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. She has undertaken many art residencies including with Bundanon Art Museum (NSW); Nanyang Technological University Centre for Contemporary Art (Singapore), Banff Art Centre and in 2021 she was Dunedin Public Art Gallery’s Visiting Artist in Residence. Recent exhibitions include No distance at all, Robert Heald Gallery; The Polyphonic Sea, Bundanon Art Museum, Australia; Several Degrees of Attention, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth; Totally Dark, Dunedin Public Art Gallery; Crossings, Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery, Wellington; and State of Motion 2020: Rushes of Time, Asian Film Archive, Singapore. Sonya is represented by Robert Heald Gallery, Wellington.
