Sophio Medoidze (b. Tbilisi, Georgia) is an artist and filmmaker working across moving image, photography, and text. A first-generation migrant to the UK after the Soviet collapse, her practice explores dislocation, migration, and the malleability of language through fragmentation, repetition, and rupture, challenging legacies of empire from the periphery. She was 2025 Sainsbury scholar at the British School at Rome. She holds MFA from Goldsmiths College, and MA in Fine Art Photography from the University of the Arts London.

Her debut feature, Let Us Flow (2023), is an experimental, poetic exploration of migration and the effects of late capitalism in the remote Greater Caucasus. She also engages in experimental writing and publishing. Her monograph, Bastard Sun (Distanz, Kona 2023), was recognised by the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Her work has been widely exhibited and screened at galleries and museums including Tate Modern (London), MoMA (online), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen), LUX (London), Serpentine cinema, Serpentine Galleries (London), Beursschouwburg (Brussels), Cafe OTO (London), Maison de la Culture (Amiens), CLOSE-UP (London), Centre d'art Contemporain (Brétigny-sur-Orge), Pavilion (Leeds), LC Queisser (Tbilisi), Institut Français (London), Outpost Gallery (Norwich), Le Cyclop (Milly-la-Forêt), IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin), Fondation Vincent van Gogh (Arles), and Paris Internationale (Paris).
She has participated in international film festivals, including Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Oberhausen), Intersección (A Coruña), Tbilisi International Film Festival (Tbilisi), EMAF European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück), Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival (Berwick), Eastern Neighbours Film Festival (The Hague), Kasseler Dokfest (Kassel), and Courtisane Festival (Ghent).

Her recent performances and readings have been presented at Courtisane Festival (Ghent), Café OTO (London), Biblioteka, AA Architects (London), and LUX (London).

She was awarded the Sainsbury Scholarship in Visual Arts at the British School at Rome (2024–2025), Book of the Month at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson (2024), the Arts Council England Project Grant (2022), The Elephant Trust Grant (2022), Georgian National Film Centre Documentary Funding (2022), and the Tyneside Cinema Projections Commission (2019).

Medoidze’s films are distributed by LUX, London.

For distribution contact: distribution@lux.org.uk

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