Sophia Bakos is a Vancouver based multidisciplinary artist who completed her Bachelor’s Degree with Distinction in Studio Arts at Concordia University in 2022. For the past year, Bakos has worked solely in contribution to her textile-photographic series entitled Skin of Her Teeth/AMATEUR. The series speaks to Bakos’ experiences with sexual harm as a teenager through combination of analog portraiture and various textile mediums such as needle felting and hand-sewing. Bakos’ textile work is an extension of herself, in that she incorporates her likeness or an element of her person in each piece. "Feminine" colours and textures are utilized to represent the sweetness of girlhood, though this sweetness is steeped in sullied memories of late adolescence. Bakos’ Skin of Her Teeth/AMATEUR saw its first public debut in 2021 at Gallery George in Vancouver, B.C for the annual Parker Art Salon, and has since been displayed as an installation at the East Side Culture Crawl for two consecutive years. The Skin of Her Teeth/AMATEUR Series took part in its first solo exhibition in September 2023 at Vancouver’s James Black Gallery. In February of 2024, Bakos will be endeavouring the next phase of the Skin Of Her Teeth series with Residency Unlimited in New York City, New York.