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  • Renee So, "Nose" Snuff Bottle, 2024
    "Nose" Snuff Bottle, 2024
  • Renee So, Renee So, 2024
    Renee So, 2024
  • Renee So, Eau de Mer Bottle, 2023
    Eau de Mer Bottle, 2023
  • Renee So, Mom Jeans II, 2024
    Mom Jeans II, 2024
  • Renee So, Woman Holding Cup XVI, 2022
    Woman Holding Cup XVI, 2022
  • Renee So, Provenance, 2023
    Provenance, 2023
  • Renee So, Bellarmines and Bootlegs, 2019
    Bellarmines and Bootlegs, 2019
  • Renee So, Ancient and Modern, 2019
    Ancient and Modern, 2019
  • Renee So, Black Captain, 2012
    Black Captain, 2012
  • Renee So, Bellarmines and Bootlegs, 2020
    Bellarmines and Bootlegs, 2020
  • Renee So, Renee So, 2016
    Renee So, 2016
  • Renee So, Transparent Things, 2020
    Transparent Things, 2020
  • Renee So, Guitar, 2018
    Guitar, 2018
  • Renee So, Whitechapel Open, 2018
    Whitechapel Open, 2018
  • Renee So, Reflections of a Reclining Male, 2019
    Reflections of a Reclining Male, 2019
  • Renee So, Unknown Woman, 2019
    Unknown Woman, 2019
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Biography

Renee So was born in Hong Kong in 1974 and grew up in Melbourne, Australia. So lives and works in London. Spanning numerous traditional craft techniques including ceramics, hand-woven textiles and furniture, So's work is centred around 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. These include prehistoric Europe, Africa and Meso-America as well as ancient Egypt, Assyria and China. Her fictional personas borrow from ancient ritual masks, military and aristocratic portraiture. 

 

Solo exhibitions include Commodities: Sculpture and Ceramics by Renee So, Compton Verney, UK (2025, forthcoming); The Essence, Lowry, Salford, UK (2024); Kate MacGarry, London (2024); Provenance, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia and UNSW Galleries, Sydney, Australia (2023); Effigies and Elginisms, Cample Line, Scotland (2022); Ancient and Modern, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, UK (2019-20) and Bellarmines and Bootlegs, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK (2019).

 

Group exhibitions include Self-Made: Reshaping Identities, Foundling Museum, London (2024); Human Conditions of Clay, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK (2022); Chapter Gallery, Cardiff, Wales, UK (2021-22); Hapticity: A Theory of Touch and Identity, Lychee One, London (2021); London Making Now, Museum of London, UK (2021); Transparent Things, Goldsmiths CCA, London (2020) and One Day, Something Happens: Paintings Of People, The Arts Council Collection, Leeds Art Gallery, UK (2015). A comprehensive catalogue, Renee So: Provenance, was published in 2023 to accompany her major survey exhibition at Monash University Museum of Art.

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