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Lives and works: Melbourne, Australia
Contact: charliesofo (at) gmail.com
Represented by Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS
2024
Hair Pieces, curated by Melissa Keys, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
I slept but my heart was awake (solo), Composite, Collingwood, Melbourne
Five rooms and house rules, curated by Tim Woodward, Bundoora Homestead Arts Centre
2023
Figuring Ground, curated by Abbra Kotlarczyk, Grafton Regional Gallery, Grafton
Important Art Collections Of The 21st Century Vol. 1: Charlie Sofo & Debris Facility PTY LTD, Cathedral Cabinet, Melbourne
2022
Tutto, Deakin University Art Gallery, Melbourne (Solo)
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, Monash University PhD exhibition held offsite at Artery Studios, Melbourne (Solo)
When we cannot touch, art is the object that passes between us, curated by Bree Richards and Melissa Ratliff, an art and correspondence project, Australia
2020
Fulfillment Centre, Online Work Commission from TarraWarra Museum of Art for Victoria Together
You'll never know your own smell, Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney (Solo)
occupy and echo ( a stage ), curated by Tom Polo, Reading Room, Melbourne
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
Shapeshifters: New Forms of Curatorial Research, curated by Tara McDowell, MADA Faculty Gallery, Monash University, Caulfield
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
Regimes of Value, Curated by Elizabeth Gower, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, VCA, 2013
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
2021 Creative Victoria and Regional Arts Victoria, Sustaining Creative Workers Grant
2020 TarraWarra Museum of Art for Victoria Together, Creative Victoria, New Work Commission
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
FAST (Fitzroy Art Spaces Tour) Moving Image Commission
2015 Artbank, New Work commission
2014 Arts Victoria, New Work grant
Australia Council for the Arts, ArtStart grant
2013 Gertrude Contemporary, Artist residency
National Gallery of Australia, Artist residency in collaboration with Andrea Zittel’s AZ Unit acquisition
Arts Project Australia, Collaboration commission
2011 Australian Postgraduate 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
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
Chartwell Collection, New Zealand
Artbank, Australia
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2017-2023 Artery Cooperative, Chair
2014-2017 Australia Council for the Arts, Peer
2014-2017 Westspace Gallery, Board member
2013-2015 Gertrude Contemporary, Board member
