Sophie

Bio

EDUCATION

Pratt Institute, School of art, Brooklyn, NY Bachelor of Fine Arts in Arts and Technology

●Focus: Interactive art at the intersection of art, design, and technology

2021 – 2025

School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)

●Credit Summer Program: Game Design and Figure Drawing

2019

CERTIFICATION

CuriousCore, Singapore (Expected) 03/2026

User Experience (UX) Career Accelerator

●technical skills in user experience research, user interface design, and design operations

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Thesis Project HoloMaid, Exhibition Presenter 2025

●Engineered an interactive AI character by deploying a locally-run Large Language Model (LLM)

●Presented the work at gallery exhibitions, including Afterlives at the Steuben Gallery and the Pratt BFA Art & Tech Senior Capstones Sophie Brenner & Wantong Lyu

Internship, Holography Studios, Manhattan, NY (240 E 26th St) 2024

●Apprenticed at NYC’s oldest holography studio under Dr. Laser, learning the craft of analog holography while also managing public tours and web content

EXHIBITIONS

●Pratt.ios ‘After Hours’ Exhibition, Pratt Institute Nothing Island, Flux Factory Governors Island 2024

●Nothing Island, Flux Factory Governors Island 2024

SKILLS

Software: Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, Blender, Unity, Touch Designer, Arduino, HTML

Creative: Graphic Design, AI tools, Photography, Illustration

Languages: English (Native), Spanish (Fluent), Russian (Intermediate), Japanese (Basic)

Strengths: Quick learner, team player, thrive in art-tech fusion environment

HONORS & AWARDS

●Selected winner of TOKYO NODE Lab & NEORT DIGITAL SPRINGBOARD Vol.4, Animations Displayed in Toranomon Hills Station Tower 2025

●Presidential Merit-Based Scholarship, Pratt Institute 2021 – 2025

●National Scholastic Gold Key Art Award 2018

VOLUNTEER

Volunteer, NGO Ant-Hiroshima Summer 2025

Asian Network of Trust Hiroshima, Japan

●Contributed to the preservation of Hiroshima living history by photographing and cataloging

surviving trees from atomic blast