Sophie Crumb was born in 1981 in California. Daughter of the underground artists Aline and Robert Crumb, she grew up in an artistic environment that encouraged her to draw, paint, and play music. In 1991, her family moved to France.
As an adult, she explored various disciplines, including drawing, music, circus school, english teaching and other odd jobs. She published two autobiographical comic books, "Belly Button Comix" with Oog & Blik (Netherlands) and Fantagraphics (USA). At the same time, she self-published fanzines and pursued her passion for music.
In 2003, she moved to Berkeley, where she studied art history and figure drawing. Later, she relocated to New York City, where she learned the art of tattooing in Brooklyn. She continued filling her sketchbooks and publishing in various fanzines and magazines.
Upon returning to France in 2006, she developed a series of pen, ink and watercolor drawings inspired by fashion photography and vintage photos. Her work focuses on the grotesque, the body, light and shadow, the bizarr, and the ghostly, with a detailed and expressionist style.
WW Norton published "Evolution of a Crazy Artist," in 2015, a collection of her sketchbook drawings, spanning from age 3 to 27.
She became the mother of three children, played in music bands, and continued her multidisciplinary artistic career. At the Vidourle Prix gallery in Sauve, she actively participated in exhibition curation alongside Julie Katan and her mother, Aline Crumb.
In 2022, the Crumb family exhibited at the prestigious Zwirner Gallery, and Sophie took part in the Outsider Art Fair in Paris.
In 2024, together with her painter friend Solenne Capmas, she organized the collective exhibition "Freakshow," bringing together renowned alternative artists such as Stéphane Blanquet, Matt Konture, Dav Guedin, Nikita Kravtsov, and Camille Bertagna, as well as artists from Brazil, England and Iran.
Today, Sophie Crumb aspires to connect with new venues in France and abroad while continuing to promote her passion for graphic, expressionist, and outsider art.