about

Sof Kreidstein is an interdisciplinary artist and facilitator creating, destroying, and transforming in connection. With a poetic and experimental approach to material, performance, media, and language, their malleable practice often takes shape through multifaceted installations and socially engaged projects. They are guided by queer and trans ritual, Jewish mysticism and wisdom, neurodivergence and madness, relationality, abjection/intrigue, ecological interconnection, and intuition. Sof is a curious creature. They explore micro/macrocosmic patterns (looking inward and reflecting outward) to cultivate growth, critique, and community.

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Sof is rooted in thresholds between here and elsewhere. They are a white settler currently based in Tkaronto ('Toronto'), after growing over the last several years in Kjipuktuk ('Halifax'), having studied at NSCAD University (BFA 2022). As an arts facilitator, their practice has developed through various organizations including Wonder’neath, Eyelevel, Radstorm, and community/camp programming. They are the Assistant Program Director at Machane Lev, a Jewish LGBTQ+ Overnight Summer Camp. Sof is an emerging curator, having curated Anthology: a collection in bloom, the 2022 NSCAD Graduation Exhibition, engaging 45 graduating students. Sof’s practice has included a number of public art projects in Nocturne Halifax Festival, most recently ruach רוח at the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, and In Touch / In Motion in the “Quiet Parade”. They’ve grown and shared their work through a number of artist residencies, performance events, gallery exhibitions, and site specific installations. Sof considers supporting and collaborating with fellow budding creatives as their greatest achievement and fulfilment.