Sophia Sambono

Sophia Nampitjimpa Sambono is a Jingili woman with family connections from Elliott/Newcastle Waters to Darwin, Daly River and the Tiwi Islands. She is the Associate Curator, Indigenous Australia Art at QAGOMA and is curator of Danie Mellor’s solo exhibition ‘marru | the unseen visible’, ‘ingkwia tjaiya, lyaartinya tjaiya (old way, new way): 30 years of Hermannsburg Pottery in the Collection’, ‘Great and Small: Kindred creatures in the Indigenous Australian Art Collection’ and ‘Snap Blak: Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island photography from the Collection’ all 2025. Prior to QAGOMA, Sophia curated exhibitions for kuril dhagun at the State Library of Queensland and was Curator of Indigenous Collections at the National Film and Sound Archive.