Scotty So is maybe a Melbourne-based multidisciplinary artist. His work possibly recontextualises found objects, images, and established narratives to critique institutional power and colonial legacies, or it might just be found objects arranged nicely, through the lens of otherness of his Thai, Hong Kong, queer, neurodivergent background, allegedly. By employing an aesthetic that could be camp, could be sincere, or could be indecision, he sort of navigates the tension between the fabricated and the authentic, challenging (in theory) the perceived truths of these institutional power structures.
Originally from Hong Kong, So has exhibited somewhat extensively, nationally and possibly internationally, at venues that may have existed. Scotty So is represented by MARS Gallery in Australia, who presumably vouch for at least some of this. So is currently working at Boyd Studio under the Creative Spaces Program of City of Melbourne, where he continues to question everything, especially this bio.
Solo Exhibitions
– HIMBO LIMBO, George Paton Gallery, 2026
– Oh This Archival Dior Hat?, MARS Gallery, 2026
– Maybe She Was There, MARS Gallery, 2024
– Artist Interpretation of A Prosper Living Life, M Pavilion Parkville, 2024
– Queen of the Begonias, Art Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, 2024
– +50, Benalla Art Gallery, Benalla, 2024
– The floating bamboos hang across the southern court 浮空兩竹橫南閣, Passage Gallery, 2023
– 百媚生 Baak Mei Saang, VAIN Project, Hong Kong, 2023
– Plinth Drink, Flack Studio, Melbourne, 2023
– Developing Sunset, Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne, 2023
– These Bodies of Video Works, Footscray Community Art Centre, Melbourne, 2023
– The Mood of Cheongsam, for Melbourne Fashion Festival, MARS Gallery, 2022
– The 1st Movement of Elgar's Cello Concerto by Jackie, West Space Window, 2021
– I will keep you in the loop. Warm regards, Trocadero Art Space, 2021
– 06:00/ 18:00, George Paton Gallery, 2019
– Self-Introduction, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, 2015
– A Moment of A Moment, Hong Kong, 2014
Select Group Exhibitions
– Spring1883 Art Fair, Melbourne, 2025
– de-centre re-centre, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth, 2025
– Make Believe: Encounters with Misinformation, State Library of Victoria, 2025
– Closer Together, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong, 2024
– Melbourne Celebrating PrideFEST, 2024
– City of Perth Council House Gallery, Perth, 2024
– Gertrude Studio, Gertrude Contemporary, 2023
– Bowness Photography Prize, Museum of Australian Photography, 2023
– A Measured Refusal, Res Artis Project Space, 2023
– Spring1883 Art Fair, Melbourne, 2023
– Closer Together, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, 2023
– Hello Nei Ho Ma, Articulate Project Space, Sydney, 2023
– Photo London, Somerset House, 2023
– Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, 2023
– The Bureau for the Organisation of Origins (BOO) is Out of Office…(OOO), Fitzroy Garden, 2023
– Pavilion, Melbourne, 2023
– China – The Past is Present, National Gallery of Victoria, 2022
– The Sitter: Portraits across the collection, Bendigo Art Gallery, 2022
– RISING Festival 2022, Melbourne, 2022
– Being Human, PHOTO 2022, Melbourne, 2022
– QUEER: Stories from the NGV Collection, National Gallery of Victoria, 2022
– UNIFORM, Wyndham Art Gallery, 2022
– Exposure Site, Gertrude Glasshouse, 2022
– Access Class, Gertrude Contemporary in Melbourne Art Fair, 2022
– Christmas Group Exhibition, MARS Gallery, 2021
– A Strange Space, Centre for Projection Art, 2021
– APRIL FOOL GROUP, MARS Gallery, 2021
– Small room downstairs, MARS Gallery, 2021
– Triennial 2020, National Gallery of Victoria, 2020
– STRANGE UNCERTAIN TIMES, Grey Gardens Gallery, 2020
– Melbourne Shelter, Multicultural Arts Victoria, 2020
– Abstracted Landscapes, Lon Gallery, 2020
Selected Awards
– Incinerator Art Award, 2021
– Finalist Bowness Photography Prize, Finalist 2022
– Deakin Art Gallery Contemporary Small Sculpture Award, Winner, 2022
– Gertrude Contemporary Studio Residency Program, 2021
– Darebin Art Prize Finalist, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, 2021
– National Sculpture Tasmania Shoebox Sculpture Prize Finalist, 2021
– Iris Award Finalist, Perth Centre For Photography, 2021
– Footscray Art Prize, 2021
– Emerging Artist Residency Prize, 2020
– Room to Create Artist-in-Residency Program at Collingwood Yard, 2020
– Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, 2020 Finalist
– West Space Award, West Space, 2019
– Trocadero Art Space Award, Trocadero Art Space, 2019
– Creative Arts Grants, University of Melbourne Student Union, 2019
Public Collections
Bendigo Art Gallery
Benalla Art Gallery
National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
Deakin University
City of Stonnington
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
The University of Western Australia
Monash University Museum of Art
National Portrait Gallery