Charlie Sofo

1983

Born Melbourne, Australia

Currently lives in Melbourne

2005

Bachelor of Visual Arts (first class Honours) ANU School of Art, ACT

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011

Unguided tours, Anne Landa award for video and new media arts 2011, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney

2010

I wish I were smaller, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney

I Wander, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, Australia

2009

Facts, Utopian Slumps, Melbourne

2008

Particular Particles, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney

2007

Something like a human Studio 17 ANCA, Canberra, Australia

Containers, Canberra Contemporary Art Space Manuka, Australia

2006

Snot, The Hive Gallery, Canberra, Australia

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011

Tell me tell me: Australian and Korean art 1976-2011, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

No room to hide, Macquarie University, Sydney

Unguided tours, Anne Landa award for video and new media arts 2011, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney

2010

Twitcher, curated by Peter Fay & Wendy Foard, Melbourne Art Fair 2010

Friends, TCB art inc. Sydney

2009

I’m worst at what I do best, curated by Tom Polo, Parramatta Artists Studios, Sydney, Australia

Soft Glue – Charlie Sofo and Mary Macdougal, curated by Joel Mu, Black & Blue Gallery, Redfern, Sydney, Australia

New World Records, curated by Helen Johnson and Nick Mangan. Sutton Gallery, Melbourne

 

2008

The Ergas Collection, curated by Glen Barkley, Gallery9, Sydney

 

2007

BloodLines - Art and the Horse Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Windsor, NSW Australia

Proof ANU School of Art Gallery, Canberra, Australia

Peter Fay Presents, Gallery 9, Sydney, Australia

Push Your Buttons, SofA Gallery, Canberra, Australia 

2006

BLAZE2006, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Australia

Domain, Alinga St, Canberra, Australia

Sense, Canberra Contemporary Art Space Manuka, Australia

2005

Broadcast, Broadcast Gallery, Canberra, Australia

Graduate Exhibition, Canberra School of Art, Australia

 

AWARDS, RESIDENCIES AND GRANTS

2008

Australia Council for the Arts, new work grant

2007

ArtsACT Grant, funding for new work

2006

Canberra Contemporary Art Space Residency

ANU School of Art Book Studio Residency

Domain Temporary Public Art Grant

2005

Henry Ergas Acquisition Award

The Peter Fay Foundation Award

2004

Emerging Artists Support Scheme Honours Scholarship

 

COLLECTIONS

 

Artbank

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Queensland

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Barkley, G, Dust dust dust of dust, catalogue essay, Soft Glue – Charlie Sofo and Mary Macdougal, curated by Joel Mu, Black & Blue Gallery, 2009

 

Glass, E, Come to bed, Charlie Sofo wants in on your dreams, Russh, August, September 2010, p. 76

McDonald, J. Among the outliers, Sydney Morning Herald, July 2-3., 2011

McDonald, J. That 70s show, Sydney Morning Herald, July 16-17, 2011

Polo, T, I am worse at what I do best, exhibition catalogue, Parramatta Artist Studios, Sydney 2009

Rule, D. I Wander, The Age, 5 May 2010

Sharkey, P. Facts, un Magazine – issue 4.1, pp 107-110

Stein, M, Sofo So Good, theblackmail.com.au, June 2010