GALERIA REUS




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Galería Reus is a contemporary art gallery based in Mallorca whose trajectory dates back to 2003. Over the years, the project has evolved through different forms of collaboration and programming, consolidating itself as a space dedicated to the research, production, and dissemination of contemporary art.

The gallery works with emerging and mid-career artists, supporting the development of their practices while creating a context for dialogue, experimentation, and reflection around the diverse forms of contemporary artistic expression. Its program is characterized by a diversity of languages and approaches, as well as an interest in establishing connections between the local artistic scene and the international context.

From Mallorca, Galería Reus aims to actively contribute to the contemporary cultural ecosystem by promoting projects that encourage exchange, artistic research, and the development of new perspectives.


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SOPHIE VALLANCE-CANTOR





Biography

Sophie Vallance Cantor is a British artist, who creates portals into fantasy realms, worlds without rules, and liminal spaces where imagination is in control and everyday boundaries dissolve. Drawing on her lived experience as a female artist with insights from her autistic identity, Cantor sees her practice as an antidote to daily life, a place where cats transform into tigers and complex relationships can be explored through the safe distance of fantasy.

Much like Alice escaping through the rabbit hole to Wonderland, Cantor’s works are self-professed “antidotes” shaped in part by her experience of autism. Her works break the boundaries of real life and fantasy; her self-portraits grow horns, and neon-lit figures smoke burning cigarettes in the dark.

Cantor's dreamlike narratives are mirrored in her saturated colour palettes. While they may break from realistic depictions, their joy and vibrancy develop her already joyful narratives. Cantor’s work is also highly influenced by the visual language of late 20th-century American cinema, leading to motifs such as neon signage, cocktails, and cigarette smoke featuring in these imaginary worlds. Through this collaboration between imagination, escape, and cultural symbolism, Cantor’s paintings capture a nostalgic yet surreal atmosphere. For Cantor, the act of painting is a deeply essential journey through which she explores identity and seeks meaning in unanswerable questions of existence.

A graduate of Camberwell College of Arts in 2015, Cantor held her first solo exhibition in 2020. Her work has since been featured at the London Art Fair (2024) and Art Rotterdam (2025), and she has been recognised as both a Hopper Prize and Ingram Collection finalist.



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EDUCATION

2013–2015 Painting. Camberwell College of Arts. London, UK.

2011–2012 Foundation in Art and Design. CCW Progression Centre. London, UK.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 Burnout. NBB Gallery. Berlin, Germany.

2023 Ride or Die. Galerie Fran Reus. Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

2022 Tiger Stripes and Smoke. Guts Gallery. London, UK.

2021 Bad at Life (Good at Painting). Guts Gallery. London, UK.

2020 Peeka-Fuckin-Boo. Guts Gallery. London, UK.


DUO EXHIBITIONS

2026 (Upcoming) Milosc. London, UK.

2024 Meet the Cantors. Enari Gallery. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

2021 Achy Breaky Heart. NBB Gallery. Berlin, Germany.

2018 They Said I Was Special. Union Gallery. London, UK.

2017 Mine, Others and Yours. We Are BUD. Athens, Greece.


ART FAIRS

2025 Art Rotterdam. Enari Gallery. Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

2024 CAN Art Fair. Enari Gallery. Ibiza, Spain.

2024 London Art Fair. Guts Gallery. London, UK.

2023 KIAF Art Fair. Everyday Mooonday Gallery. Seoul, South Korea.

2023 KIAF Art Fair. Yusto Giner Gallery. Seoul, South Korea.

2023 KIAF Art Fair. Galerie Fran Reus. Seoul, South Korea.

2023 ZONAMACO Art Fair. Yusto Giner Gallery. Mexico City, Mexico.