Sophie Bernard

Sophie Bernard was born on June 23, 1948 in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Seine) is a French painter, sculptor and scenographer.

Painter, she lives and works in Ivry-sur-Seine. After graduating from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, she joined "La Ruche" in 1969, which was built by Jean Eiffel for the 1889 World Exhibition, a place of refuge between the two wars for many renowned artists of the 20th century. She works there in painting, drawing, sculpture, and creates installations inspired by Greek mythology. Some of his works were used for stage productions. Most of his works will be presented in galleries and will integrate into private collections or museums (Modern Arts of Paris, Musée d'Epinal, Centre Pompidou, Fonds National, Elysée... Her artistic research and interest in art history, particularly for the Italian Renaissance, led her to reside in Venice in 2011, where she created "Tintoretto messo in scena", an installation inspired by Tintoretto; she exhibited it at the Scuola San Teodoro in Venice in 2012. In 2014 in Florence she continues on this path and creates from the Hell of Dante, Terza Rima, a work... that she exhibits – also in Venice the following year, in 2015. Back in France, in 2019, it is in tribute to the castaways and to Géricault that she creates a series of large paintings 'Migrations'...