About

SOFI THANHAUSER  uses materials like concrete and cotton as a lens through which to view global history and politics and reveal flows of power. Her work has been featured in MIT Technology Review, The Guardian, and Vox. She is the author of Worn: A People’s History of Clothing (Pantheon 2021), and her second book Shelter is forthcoming from Riverhead. She is the recipient of the Calderwood Journalism Fellowship and the Fulbright, and has received residencies from Yaddo, MacDowell, Ucross Foundation, Millay Arts, Jentel, and VCCA. She teaches at Pratt Institute.

As a multimedia artist she works with language, image, song, textile, video, and performance, often exploring how words operate in their three different capacities as images, sounds, and conceptual markers. Her work explores matriarchy variously as utopian promise, dystopian foil, and political demand. 

Sofi Thanhauser by Beowulf Sheehan