(Johannesburg, South Africa)

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During her Fine Arts degree at Wits, Thea Soggot had the opportunity to be taught by several well-known artists , notably  Paul Stopforth, Neels Coetzee and Judith Mason. In that time, she was awarded the Henri Lidchi prize for drawing. Soggot held her first exhibition at The Market Gallery in 1981 and, in 1984, had her first solo exhibition at the Goodman Gallery where she continued to exhibit her work over the next fifteen years.

While working as an art director and designer, she began holding art classes at Femma Gavin’s studio, working on commissions, and continuing her art practice. In the early 1990s, she held art classes at the Johannesburg Art Gallery and was on the advisory board of the Market Gallery, headed by David Goldblatt. In 1992, Soggot spent eight months as artist-in-residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Since then, she has taken up three residencies at the Cité for shorter periods. She started to exhibit her work internationally in 1996, and began her art school, teaching drawing and painting in the same year.

In 2007 she began to exhibit with the Everard Read Gallery, with whom she continues to show.

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