Megan SooHoo is a Los Angeles native artist who is primarily based in Oakland, CA. She mainly works within the realm of photography and sculpture, but enjoys being multifaceted in various practices. Most of her work conveys the human condition within their surroundings and in most recent years, portrays her own personal experiences. Her upbringing in a multi-cultural family has allowed her to see various perspectives, thus creating work after those instances.
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EDUCATION
2021 BFA - Photography & Sculpture, California College of the Arts (CCA)
2020 AICAD Exchange - Burren College of Art
SOLO EXHIBITION / ARTIST TALK
2021 Oliver At Center Gallery - “idea of being things you carry things you go through” - Sculpture Senior Thesis
Class of 2021 Showcase (virtual) - “idea of being things you carry things you go through”
UCLA - Photography Class with Suné Woods - Artist Talk
BFA Senior Thesis Conversations - “idea of being things you carry things you go through” - Photography Senior Thesis (virtual)
2019 Test Strip Gallery - “Discontent with my Sameness”
GROUP EXHIBITION
2022 CCA Fine Arts Photo Program Exhibition - Victory Hall, San Francisco - “feeling of home” & “past present self”
CCA Scholarship Exhibition - CCA Wattis Institute - “dim adolescence”
2021 UC Davis Ceramic Guild Conference - “Self Love”
2020 Spring 2020 Undergraduate Study Abroad Exhibition - Burren College of Art - “Physicality of the Intangible”
2019 Disquiet Bodies Exhibition - SF Camerawork - “Past Present Self”
Beyond the Frame Exhibition - The Midway - “Reclaiming My Name”
Fissure Exhibition - Minnesota Street Project Studios - “Reclaiming My Name”
To Trace A Line Exhibition - Isabella Percy West Gallery - “Untitled”
She Who Was Exhibition - Shaklee Gallery - “4 Repetition 8”
Bootleg Exhibition - CCA’s Meyer Library - “Full Moon”
Student of Color Coalition: Everything is Sacred Exhibition - Isabella Percy West Gallery - “Self Love”
2018 Running Start: First Year Exhibition - Oliver Art Center Gallery - “Stocoelf”
PUBLICATION
2021 Canto Cutie Vol. 3 Zine - “first time for everything” poem
Rewind Review Respond Interview: BFA Senior Thesis Conversations - “idea of being things you carry things you go through”
2020 CCA Arts Review - Movies: You Don’t Know A Movie Until You Know Its Sub-Genre - on the narrative importance of subtle and not so subtle cues
Irish Arts Review - New Generation Gallery - Burren College of Art - “Physicality of the Intangible” Select Works
AWARD / SCHOLARSHIP
2021 William R. Hearst Foundation Endowed Scholarship
Albertina Zanzi Endowed Scholarship
2017-21
Creative Achievement Award
CCA Scholarship
2020-21
Florence J. French Endowed Scholarship
2020 All College Honors Scholarship
2017 Continuing Education Award
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