Born and raised in Islamabad, Pakistan,

Sophiya attended the National College

of Arts (NCA) in Lahore, where she

selected Printmaking as her field of

choice. After three years of intensive

etching, she pursued a two year Masters

program at the renowned Rhode Island

School of Design (RISD) that she attended

on a Fulbright scholarship awarded in 2005.

Her focus throughout her masters at RISD

was also primarily on etching though she

experimented with many different print

media such as lithography, digital media,

screen printing and letterpress amongst

many others.

 

Back from RISD, Sophiya now resides

primarily in Islamabad with her husband

and is currently exhibiting work both in

Pakistan and internationally.She is an advisory

member of the  VASL-ROHTAS RAWAN

Residency for the Arts in Pakistan, and is also

an Assistant Professor of  Printmaking at the

National College of Arts in Rawalpindi.