Sofia Hultén was born 1972 in Stockholm, Sweden. She grew up in Birmingham, UK and studied sculpture at Sheffield Hallam University. Since 1998 she lives and works in Berlin. She is a professor at the State Academy of Fine Art Stuttgart since 2023.

Hultén has had solo exhibitions at KINDL Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin (2018), Museum Tinguely, Basel and Ikon Gallery Birmingham (both 2018), Espai13, Fundació Miró, Barcelona (2015), Kunstverein Braunschweig, Brunswick (2013), Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2009), Künstlerhaus Bremen (2008), Kunstverein Nürnberg (2007). Hultén was part of various group exhibitions among others at Fullersta Gård, Stockholm (2025), Schiller Museum, Weimar (2023), Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Kunstpalais Erlangen (both 2022), Kunstmuseum Bonn (2021), Museum für Sepulkralkultur, Kassel (2020), Kunsthalle Mainz (2017), Kunstverein Freiburg (2016), DAAD Galerie, Berlin, 8th Nordic Biennal of Contemporary Art, Moss (both 2015), Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Frankfurter Kunstverein (both 2014). She will participate in a group exhibition curated John Peter Nilsson in Stockholm later this year.

Sofia Hultén was recipient of the Moderna Museets Vänners Skulpturpris in 2011 and the scholarship from the Ragnar von Holten Memorial Fund in 2025.