Drea Cofield

Drea Cofield is an artist residing and working in Brooklyn, NY. Cofield is currently best known for her ongoing Selfie Project that merges the history of portraiture in painting with a broader contemporary conversation around self-imaging and what “looking” means in a digital world.

At the heart of the Selfie Project is a meditation on the act of self-representation: the tension between the disposable immediacy of digital imaging and the slowness, vulnerability, and physicality of painting. I’m particularly drawn to the invitational nature of the nude selfie, which—like painting—is often created in solitude, shaped by the author’s gaze and the intentional crop of the frame. By translating these images into paint, I am investigating a new small theater of exhibitionism - one less about sex and more about the quiet, human desire to not only be seen, but rendered through touch. Beyond its conceptual framework, the Selfie Project is a serious inquiry into the language of painting, and more so, all my paintings are an exploration of the embodiment of looking—as speed, as touch, as material. One selfie may evoke the solitude of Edward Hopper, another the palette of Giotto, or the domestic quietude of Vermeer.

Exhibitions with Soho Revue

Soft Exchanges - September 2025 (Solo)

Behind the Curtains - January 2026

Fairs

NADA NYC 2026

Press