About

SOFI THANHAUSER  interrogates materials like concrete and cotton to reveal flows of power in global history and politics. 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). She is the recipient of the Calderwood Journalism Fellowship, the Fulbright Fellowship, and has received residencies from Yaddo, MacDowell, Ucross Foundation, and Millay Arts. Her second book Shelter is forthcoming from Riverhead.

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.

Sofi Thanhauser by Beowulf Sheehan