Biography
Renee So (b. Hong Kong 1974) grew up in Melbourne, Australia and now lives and works in London. So's work spans numerous traditional craft trechniques including ceramics, hand-woven textiles and furniture that refer specifically to representations of the female figure in prehistoric cultures. She bestows monumental grandeur and caricatural qualities to the figures in her works, which weave together a pattern of cross-cultural references. Her fictional personas borrow from ancient ritual masks, military and aristocratic portraiture.
Renee So's work has recently had solo shows at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, Sussex, UK (2019-20) and the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK (2019). In 2020 she featured in Goldsmiths CCA's exhibition Transparent Things. Other exhibitions include One Day, Something Happens: Paintings Of People (curated by Jennifer Higgie), The Arts Council Collection, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds (2015); A Conspiracy of Detail, Mackintosh Museum, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow (2013); Newspeak: British Art Now, Saatchi Gallery, London and The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia (2010/2011). So had a solo presentation at Frieze London with Kate MacGarry in October 2021.
