Bio

Scott Gorham is a visual artist and educator based in New York City. His artistic practice moves between sculpture, installation, light, digital media, performance, and participatory work. Using industrial materials, synthetic light, architectural forms, digital images, and device-mediated experience, his work explores how people orient themselves within physical and digital environments. Across projects involving ancient stone circles, urban infrastructure, artificial suns, virtual bodies, and constructed landscapes, he returns to questions of embodiment, identity, place, technology, and the human impulse to build and transform the world.

Alongside his studio practice, Gorham develops and hosts collaborative art projects and workshops for children. These projects integrate sculpture, photography, digital media, design, and making within larger conceptual frameworks. Some of his favorite themes are outer space, aliens, and robots, which become ways to engage children in questions about identity, challenge them to formulate definitions of home and place, and cultivate empathy and wonder for the world around them. His participatory projects have included HELLO FUTURE WORLD with Greywood Arts and Ireland’s National Space Centre, the MACO Garden, an Intergalactic Empathy Development Workshop, and KID FUTURE LAB, an international artistic exchange program connecting elementary-age students in the United States, France, Ireland, and Puerto Rico.

Gorham holds an MA in Art & Public Policy from New York University, an MFA in Spatial Art and an MFA in Digital Media Art from San Jose State University, and a BFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been exhibited internationally in Europe, Australia, and America, at venues such as the Tech Museum of Innovation, Twitter Headquarters, and the de Young Museum. He has delivered numerous artist talks and lectures, including at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Edinburgh College of Art, and Apple on his research in device-mediated experience.

Gorham has more than a decade of experience teaching students from elementary school through college. He currently teaches visual art and maker-centered learning at The Shefa School in New York City, where he also serves as Art Coordinator. His teaching practice brings together art, design, technology, and hands-on making while using the creative process to develop transferable skills. Collaboration, experimentation, and risk-taking become ways for students to build confidence, strengthen critical thinking, develop self-sufficiency, and pursue their own ideas with increasing independence.