In Sophia New's solo performance and video works she is specifically interested in issues of the everyday, distance, intimacy and scale within art making. Her works have been shown in Expo fesitval, Nottingham, National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, Chapter Arts Cardiff, Podewil, Uferstudios, Dock 11 in Berlin and Dortmund Künstlerhaus. She is also performer, video maker and co-founder of plan b with Daniel Belasco Rogers. Since 2002 they have made over 25 projects for different cities, festivals, and galleries. plan b has allowed Sophia and Daniel to make a wide variety of works in the fields of fine art, performance, new media and sited works: they consider their work to be both site and relationship specific. Through their long term practice of gathering personal data (GPS & SMS) they have an on going body of work which takes many material forms both analogue and digital, and has caused them to become more politicised about how daily data is being used.

She has a background in Philosophy & Literature with German from Sussex University and received her Masters in Feminist Performance in Bristol and her PhD from Exeter University.

She has taught on performance courses in Gloucester University, Aberystwyth University and Das Arts in Amsterdam, as well as giving a courses on Urban Interventions with Daniel Belasco Rogers at the Hafen City University Hamburg, Leipzig University and Art school and Bard and University of the Arts in Berlin. She co-taught workshops in Live Art and Performance at Folkwang University, Essen/Bochum for 12 years to the Physical Theatre, Acting and Directing Students. Sophia taught at the Inter University of the Arts (HZT/UdK) in Berlin since 2012 mainly on MA Solo Dance Authorship but also on the other two courses and developed the Makers Open as a format for all students to show and feedback on work at any stage. Between 2020 - 2022 with Daniel Belasco Rogers is a Guest Professor on the University of the Arts Berlin for the Studium Generale where they both ta.ught and curated on the Interdiscplinary Art a Practice and Theory. Her pedagogical interest is in specifically supporting students in finding ways to express within the work and through supporting statements and documents a synergy between making and reflecting on one's own practice.

As well as numerous publications in Performance Research Journal and catalogues from group exhibitions she contributed to The Imaginary Reader published by Volt and Forms of Life: An Ecology of Artistic Practices, by Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers + Questions théoriques. She wrote a chapter for ‘Practicing Composition: Making Practice. Texts, Dialogues and Documents 2011-2013’ based on a 4 year Erasmus Exchange of MA programmes and published by University of the Arts Theatre Academy in 2015. In 2016- 2018 she was part of a research programme funded by the Volkswagenstiftung on the correlation between Arts and Sciences and Movement and culminated in the publication ‘Expanding Writing: Inscriptions of Movement between Art and Science’ by Revolver Publishing, in 2019.