Sophia Tabatadze was born in 1977 in Tbilisi, Georgia and lives in Tbilisi and Rotterdam. She makes drawings and site-specific installations which refer to the local social-political context, or that of the current situation in Georgia. Her works often respond to a condition of collective amnesia and a generational leap caused in Georgia by rapid changes in the country's political situation and its social and urban development. She has described Georgia as a country 'going through its teenage period, where the objects of its love and passion change drastically each year'. In her work Much More, a newspaper made in 2006, she recorded what were for her the most recent visible changes. 'A large number of shops and new businesses open each year, only to give way to other business the year after. For example, 2003 was the year of casinos, 2004 of fashionable supermarkets, and 2005 of perfume shops. There have also been years of pharmacy stores, exchange points, beauty salons, petrol stations, restaurants and so on.' Another work Humancon Undercon (decoded title: human condition under construction), 2007, comprises a series of black and white photographs of architectural facades printed on fabric. Their texture and aesthetic has been enriched and made more personal and individual with hand stitched embroidery and miniature sculpted landscapes that show fragments of architecture and human traces in an urban environment that has in fact become thoroughly inhuman due to large and rough manmade landscapes of half destroyed or not yet fully completed buildings. Tabatadze's practice also involves the organisation of collaborative group projects between Georgian and international artists.

In 2007 Tabatadze presented Georgia in the 52nd Venice Biennale and in the same year she participated in the 10th International Istanbul Biennal, Turkey. She has had solo exhibitions at Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam;  Lambert Tegenbosch Gallery, Heusden; Josine Bokhoven Gallery, Amsterdam and in Old Gallery, Tbilisi. Her participation in group exhibitions includes those at Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art, Prato, Italy; Boijmans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam and National Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia. In 2008 Tabatadze was an artist in residence at the International Studio Program at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien.