Sophia Süßmilch was born in 1983 in Munich, and studied there under Stephan Huber at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste from 2006 to 2015. In 2011, she received a research scholarship from the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in the USA, after which she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Ashley Hans Scheirl until 2013. The artist works in the media of photography, painting, sculpture and performance.

Her work has been shown in Belvedere 21 in Vienna in 2018, Neue Galerie Graz and Kunstpalast Düsseldorf in 2020, Ludwig Forum Aachen in June 2021 and upcoming solo at G2 Kunsthalle in Leipzig and at Francisco Carolinum in Linz in 2023.

In 2018 she was awarded the Bayerischen Kunstförderpreis and in 2020 the Förderpreis für Bildende Kunst der Landeshauptstadt München. In 2022 she recieved the Marianne Defet Stipendium für Malerei.

Sophia Süßmilch lives and works in Berlin, Munich and Vienna.