Born: 1983 Melbourne. Lives and works on Wurundjeri Country, Melbourne, Australia.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS
2021
We Change the World, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
All that was solid melts, curated by Juliana Engberg, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, Auckland, New Zealand
Emotional Hydraulics, Artery Studios, Melbourne (SOLO)
2020
Fulfilment Centre, Online Work Commission from TarraWarra Museum of Art for Victoria Together
You'll never know your own smell, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney (SOLO)
2019
On Vulnerability and Doubt, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Queer Economies, curated by Madé Spencer Castle and Abbra Kotlarczyk , Bus Projects, Melbourne
2018
Why listen to plants?, curated by Liquid Architecture, RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne, Australia
Bowerbird: Clinton Bradley and the Art of Collecting, Western Plains Cultural Centre, Dubbo, NSW
2017
The Score, Curated by Jacqueline Doughty, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne
Of everything that disappears there remain traces, curated by Lauren Ravi, The Honeymoon Suite, Melbourne
Unseasonal Work, Bus Projects, Melbourne (SOLO)
2016
The Documentary Take, curated by Naomi Cass, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
As the Moon Waxes and Wanes, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
A gap opens up, Melbourne’s Living Museum of the West, Melbourne (SOLO)
2015
Set, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney (SOLO)
Feeling Material, curated by Benjamin Woods, C3 Gallery, Melbourne
The Object As Score, Curated by Nathan Gray, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne
Somewhere in the City, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne
2014
The Small Infinite, John Hansard Gallery, Southhampton, UK
( ), Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne (SOLO)
Spring 1883, Suite 224, The Hotel Windsor, Melbourne
Return Threshold – Michelle Nikou, Charlie Sofo, Marcin Kobylecki and Patrick Hartigan, Fontanelle Gallery, Adelaide
2013
Everyday Magic, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Reinventing the Wheel: The Ready-made Century, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
2012
Desire Lines, curated by Juliana Engberg, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
New12, curated by Jeff Khan, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Volume One, curated by Glenn Barkley, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Experimenta: Speak To Me, 4th Biennale of Media Art, curated by Abigail Moncrief, RMIT Gallery, Storey Hall, Melbourne
Corn chip, mobile phone, finger print, incense stick, Craft, Melbourne (SOLO)
2011
Unguided Tours: Anne Landa Award for Video and New Media Art, curated by Justin Paton, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Tell Me, Tell Me: Australian and Korean Art 1976-2011, curated by Glenn Barkley and Inhye Kim, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea and National Art School Gallery, Darlinghurst, Sydney
Three Imaginary Boys, curated by Geoff Newton, Neon Parc Gallery, Melbourne
Sudden Gestures or Noises, curated by Caterina Riva, Artspace, Auckland
Zero, curated by Liang Luscombe, West Space West Wing, Melbourne
No Place to Hide, curated by Peter Fay, Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney
Friends, TCB art inc., Melbourne, 2010
New World Records, curated by Helen Johnson and Nick Mangan. Sutton Gallery,
2010
I wander, curated by Sue Cramer, Heide Museum of Modern Art Project Space, Melbourne (SOLO)
AWARDS, COMMISSIONS AND RESIDENCIES
2020 New Work Commission for TarraWarra Museum of Art for Victoria Together, supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.
2017 Monash University Graduate Award Scholarship
2016 Australia Council for the Arts, New work grant
Monash University Prato, Visual Artist Residency
Melbourne’s Living Museum of the West, Artist Residency
2015 Artbank, New Work commission
2014 Arts Victoria, New Work grant
Australia Council for the Arts, ArtStart grant
2013 Gertrude Contemporary, Artist residency (2013 – 2015)
2011 Australian Post-graduate Award Scholarship
2008 Australia Council for the Arts, new work grant (emerging)
2007 ArtsACT, New work grant
2006 Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Artist Residency
ANU School of Art Book Studio, Residency
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Queensland
Melbourne University Art Collection
National Gallery of Victoria
Faculty of Science Collection, Monash University
Chartwell Collection (New Zealand)
Artbank
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Nelson, R., Artists grapple with doubt and shame, Sydney Morning Herald, July 9, 2019, https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/artists-grapple-with-doubt-and-shame-20190704-p5245d.html
Stewart, E., Charlie Sofo: Split (2014), Realtime, August 2017, https://www.realtime.org.au/split-2014/
O’Neill, J., Charlie Sofo: A Gap Opens Up, Eyeline Magazine, Issue 86, April 2017 https://www.eyelinepublishing.com/eyeline-86/review/charlie-sofo-gap-opens?q=eyeline-86/review/charlie-sofo-gap-opens
Carey-Kent, P., The Small Infinite, Frieze Magazine, Issue 166, October 2014 http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/the-small-infinite/
Chong. W.H., Melbourne Now: Envy and the Politics of Inclusiveness, Crikey December 2013 http://blogs.crikey.com.au/culture-mulcher/2013/12/10/melbourne-now-envy-and-the-politics-of-inclusiveness/
Clunne, S., Magic in the Mundane, Write About Art, Issue 5, 2013
Drummond, M., Shock of the Now, Australian Financial Review, 16-17 November 2013
Luscombe, L., Walking is not a medium, it’s an attitude in UN Magazine, Issue 5.2, Pub. Melbourne 2011, pp. 7-13safar
Babbington, J., Critic’s Choice, Art Collector, Issue 65, July – September 2013
Barkley, G., Dust dust dust of dust, catalogue essay, Soft Glue – Charlie Sofo and Mary Macdougal, curated by Joel Mu, Black & Blue Gallery, 2009
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’m 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
Strachan, J., Do not disturb: artist at home and work, The Canberra Times, 8 March 2012
Symes, C., Melburnin’, Trouble, June 2010, pp. 20 – 21
Turner, B., New artists get into the swim in The Weekend Australian Financial Review, 5-9 April 2012, p. 70
