Scotty So works across media, using painting, photography, site-responsive installation, video and drag performance to explore the often-contradictory relationship between humour and sincerity within lived experience. Born and raised in Hong Kong, So graduated BFA Honours at the Victorian College of the Arts with First Class Honours in Melbourne, Australia, 2019. So’s work has been displayed in two solo and several group shows, including exhibitions in Hong Kong, Greater China and Australia.
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours), First-Class Honours, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, 2019
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, 2018
Associate Degree in Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University College of International Education, 2015
Solo Exhibitions
2019 - 06:00/ 18:00, Melbourne, George Paton Gallery
2015 - Self-Introduction, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
2014 - A Moment of A Moment, Hong Kong
Group Exhibitions
2020 - Venus in Thorns, Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne
Project Anywhere 2020, Melbourne
STRANGE UNCERTAIN TIMES, Grey Gardens Gallery, Melbourne
Shelter, Multicultural Arts Victoria, Melbourne
Abstracted Landscapes, Lon Gallery,Melbourne
FiX 05, Melbourne
Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2019 - Performing Textile, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
Satellite Anthem, Assembly Point, Melbourne
Gaping, VCA Art Space, Melbourne
FiX 04, KINGS, Melbourne
Kensington Contemporary – a Conveniently Timed, Market Based Event for the Activation of Space, Program Announcement and Generation of Capital Art Fair, New Agency, Melbourne
2018 - 2018 ILFORD CCP Salon, Centre for Contemporary Photography Melbourne
DESTINATIONS, Step Gallery, The Greek Australian Cultural League, Melbourne
Please Mind the Uneven Ground, Cattle Depot Artists Village, Hong Kong
2017 - IDENTITY, Barber’s Basement Gallery, Hong Kong
2016 - HK:ID, identity and illusion, Lightstage Gallery, Hong Kong
Pride Art, Clifford Chance, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2015 - Love Is Our Future, Polar Bear Gallery, Shanghai
Weight -, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Awards And Recognition
2020 - Room to Create Artist-in-Residency Program at Collingwood Yard, Yarra City Arts
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize 2020 Finalist
2019 - West Space Award, West Space
Trocadero Art Space Award, Trocadero Art Space
Creative Arts Grants, University of Melbourne Student Union
2014 - PIPELINE Magazine issue 43 The Photography Annual
Design Excellence Award, Genesis Building Rolls Royce Car Artistic Reinterpretation Competition
2013 - Society for Community Organization Charity Auction by Sotheby's
<Poppies On The Ground With Woods >
Oil on Canvas, 46 x 61 cm, 2013
46,000 HKD
