Charlie Sofo
Dr Charlie Sofo
Charlie Sofo is an artist, lecturer and coordinator of the first year fine art program at Monash University. Since 2006 he has been exhibiting and making public presentations of sculpture, video, drawing and performance works. Through his research he explores affective writing, modes of attunement (and tuning into the world), and the possibilities of art as a form of emotional knowledge.
Charlie has undertaken residencies with the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea; Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne; Monash Prato Centre, Italy and The Living Museum of the West, Maribyrnong. He has served as a board member of various arts organisations including West Space, Gertrude Contemporary and Artery Cooperative and is represented by Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney.
Selected projects include: Hair Pieces, Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2024; Tutto, Deakin University Art Gallery, 2022; On Vulnerability and Doubt, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2019; Queer Economies, Bus Projects, 2019; Why listen to plants?, curated by Liquid Architecture, RMIT Design Hub, 2018; The Score, The Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne University, 2017, As the Moon Waxes and Wanes, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, South Korea, 2016; Everyday Magic, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, 2013; Unguided Tours: Anne Landa Award for Video and New Media Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2011.
Charlie received his PhD from Monash University in 2021.