Scotty So
Scotty So is a Melbourne/Narrm-based artist who works across media, including ceramic, painting, photography, sculptures, site-responsive installation, videos, and performance. Driven by the thrill of camp, he explores the often-contradictory relationship between humour and sincerity, creating a scene of para-fiction through the manipulation of found objects and existing imageries in the living experience. Born and raised in Hong Kong, So’s work has been shown in Australia, China, Hong Kong, and Europe, including the National Gallery of Victoria. Scotty So is represented by MARS Gallery in Australia. So is currenly working at the Boyd Studio under the Creative Spaces Program of City of Melbourne.
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/Project
2024 -Maybe she was there, MARS Gallery
Artist Interpretation of A Prosper Living Life, M Pavilion Parkville
Queen of the Begonias, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat
+50, Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla
2023 -The floating bamboos hang across the southern court 浮空兩竹橫南閣, Passage Gallery, Sydney
百媚生 Baak Mei Saang, VAIN Project, Hong Kong
Plinth Drink, Flack Studio, Melbourne
Developing Sunset, Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne
These Bodies of Video Works, Footscray Community Art Centre, Melbourne
2022 - The Mood of Cheongsam, for Melbourne Fashion Festival, MARS Gallery Melbourne
2021 - The 1st Movement of Elgar's Cello Concerto by Jackie, West Space Window, Melbourne
I will keep you in the loop. Warm regards, Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne
2019 - 06:00/ 18:00, Melbourne, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
2015 - Self-Introduction, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
2014 - A Moment of A Moment, Hong Kong
Group Exhibitions
2025 - de-centre re-centre, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth
Make Believe: Encounters with Misinformation, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
2024 -B-Side 2024, Blindside, Melbourne
Celebrating PrideFEST 2024, City of Perth Council House Gallery, Perth
Closer Together, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong
2023 -Gertrude Studio 2023, Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne
Incinerator Art Award 2023, Incinerator Gallery, Melbourne
Bowness Photography Prize 2023, Museum of Australian Photography, Melbourne
A Measured Refusal, Res Artis Project Space, Melbourne
Spring Art Fair 2023, Melbourne
Closer Together, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
Hello Nei Ho Ma, Articulate Project Space, Sydney
Photo London, Somerset House, London
Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Bureau for the Organisation of Origins (BOO) is Out of Office…(OOO), Fitzroy Garden Pavilion, Melbourne
2022 - China – The Past is Present, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Sitter: Portraits across the collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo
Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Deakin Art Gallery, Melbourne
RISING Festival 2022, Melbourne
Being Human, PHOTO 2022, Melbourne
QUEER: Stories from the NGV Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
UNIFORM, Wyndham Art Gallery, Melbourne
Exposure Site, Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne
Access Class, Gertrude Contemporary in Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
2021 - Darebin Art Prize, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne
Christmas Group Exhibition, MARS Gallery, Melbourne
National Sculpture Tasmania Shoebox Sculpture Prize, Sculpture Tasmania, Tasmania
Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney
Iris Award, Perth Centre For Photography, Perth
Footscray Art Prize 2021, Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne
A Strange Space, Centre for Projection Art, Melbourne
APRIL FOOL GROUP, MARS Gallery, Melbourne
Small room downstairs, MARS Gallery, Melbourne
2020 -Triennial 2020, National Gallery of Victoria, 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
Venus in Thorns, Trocadero Art Space, 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
Awards And Recognition
2023 - Incinerator Art Award, Finalist
Bowness Photography Prize, Finalist
2022 - Deakin Art Gallery Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Winner
Gertrude Contemporary Studio Residency Program
2021 - Darebin Art Prize Finalist, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre
National Sculpture Tasmania Shoebox Sculpture Prize Finalist, Sculpture Tasmania
Iris Award Finalist, Perth Centre For Photography
Footscray Art Prize 2021 Emerging Artist Residency Prize
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