about
Sonja Langford (b. 1994) is an artist and researcher raised in the American South. She is currently an MFA candidate at the University of Connecticut and holds a BA in Art History from the University of North Carolina Charlotte.
Her practice encompasses photography, bookmaking, social practice, archival research, and installation, all exploring themes of medical history, gender, and power. Through her research on American gynecology, she investigates the intersection of history and contemporary healthcare disparities, highlighting how past narratives continue to shape present realities. Her work seeks to challenge perceptions of visibility and control within medical and historical contexts, bringing to light the overlooked and the unseen.
Sonja's practice is also informed by the principals of facilitation, drawing from years of experience in leadership education, challenge courses, and outdoor adventure learning to inform how she approaches the studio and the classroom. The values of collaboration, community, reflection, and collective meaning-making shape her artistic methods as much as they shape her pedagogy. Within this ecosystem, research, teaching, and artmaking converge: each becomes a way to question structures of her research of medical and historical power while creating spaces for dialogue, agency, and recognition of what is often overlooked.
Sonja's work has been exhibited in numerous venues, including the Aldrich Museum (forthcoming), Gadsden Museum of Art (forthcoming), and the McColl Center.
