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Upcoming Shows:

January 2011 "Family Quilt" a group show at Together Gallery, Portland OR
February 2011 "Boy-girl boy-girl" Upper Playground, Portland OR
March 2011 solo show at 35th North, Seattle WA

ABOUT

Sohaila Adela (formerly known as Soso), is Seattle born, Portland based, artist whose work explores emotion and the human condition through figurative work that includes; bright neon colors, fine line work; iconography and occult symbols. Sohaila's work fuses vulnerable and strong female figures, animals, and reoccurring themes of feathers and nature to explore themes of love, death, mysticism and rituals.

Sohaila earned her BFA from Cornish College of the Arts and has exhibited at galleries throughout the northwest including Suite 100, Thinkspace, Flatcolor Gallery, Moksha, Aurafice Cafe, Cafe Solstice, Together Gallery, and Schmancy.

ART

LINKS

EXHIBITIONS

EDUCATION
2007 - BFA, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 - Flatcolor Gallery "Esoteric", Seattle, WA
2009 - Moksha, "Love and Death", Seattle, WA
2008 - Aposable thumb, Portland, OR
2007 - Rock'n'rose, Portland, OR
2006 - Aurafice Cafe, Seattle, WA
Cafe Solstice, Seattle, WA


GROUP SHOWS
2009
Together Gallery, "Family Quilt 2", Portland, OR
Flatcolor Gallery, "TWOTHOUSANDTEN", December group show, Seattle, WA
Flatcolor Gallery, July group show, Seattle, WA
Project Chaboo, Portland, OR

2008
Together Gallery, "Family Quilt", Portland, OR
Rock'n Rose, november show, Portland, OR
Rio:Pacific 619 Western, haulseycaust & Sohaila Adela, Sept. first thursday art walk, Seattle, WA
Together Gallery, "Swim Meet", portland Or
Club 6ix, "Veni Vidi Vici" Juxtapoz issue release party, San Francisco CA
Suite 100 Gallery, "Feathered Friends", Seattle, WA
Suite 100 Gallery, "Happily Ever After 2", currated by Monica Choy, Seattle, WA
Alpha Cult, "Quiet As Kept", Long Beach, CA

2007
Suite 100 Gallery, "Sweet 100", seattle
Schmancy, 2007 year end show, Seattle, WA
Lo:fi, Artifakt, all girls show, Seattle, WA
Backspace, currated by Monica Choy, Portland, OR
Cornish BFA show (may 11th), Seattle, WA
Thinkspace, RE:MISSION Los Angeles, CA
Thread, live painting sponsored by Blvd Gallery,Seattle, WA
Schmancy, Artist lover's show; a duet with 2H, Seattle, WA
Plush show, sponsored by Snowboard connection, RVCA, and Schmancy, Seattle, WA

2006
Sno-con, July First Thursday art walk, seattle
The Gilt Edge Society, The Munny Show, sponsored by Schmancy, Seattle, WA
Gallery 154, "Crossing paths a rediscovery", Seattle, WA
619 western, March First Thursday art walk, Seattle, WA

2004
619 western, April First Thursday art walk, Seattle, WA