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Apolonia Sokol (b. 1988, Paris) is a French figurative painter of Danish and Polish descent. After graduating from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, she moved to the United States and settled in New York where she worked in the studio of painter Dan Colen. Sokol later moved to Los Angeles where she befriended other artists and painters with whom she started an ongoing conversation on figurative painting. She is known for her political stance on the art of portraiture, claiming the need to use it as a tool of empowerment and deconstruction of marginalization or …