Bio

Scott Gorham is a visual artist and educator from Oakland, California, currently living and working in New York City. His projects combine installation sculpture made from industrial materials, neon, and LEDs, with projections, animations, and digital spaces. Sculptures evolve into performances which become events — that often turn into parties. He is currently working with augmented reality, LiDAR 3D scans, and megalithic sites across Ireland and the UK. While embracing the digital hybridity of contemporary life, Gorham looks to an ancient analog past as a way to situate the present and imagine the future. Stone circles and ruins decay within utopian possibilities and house music soundtracks.

Gorham received both 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. He has exhibited internationally in Europe, Australia, and America at institutions such as the Tech Museum of Innovation, Twitter Headquarters, and the de Young Museum in San Francisco. He has given numerous artist talks and lectures, including at the Edinburgh College of Art about his project at the Callanish Standing Stones and at Apple on his research in device-mediated experience. He has over a decade of experience working with students ranging from elementary school to college. In 2020 he created a series of online participatory performances with undergraduate and graduate students at San Jose State University and New York University as part of an ongoing project about community wellness through shared identity in collaborative space. This past year he partnered with Greywood Arts and the National Space Centre in Ireland for his project HELLO FUTURE WORLD, where he led a monthlong series of worldbuilding and sculpture workshops for students in East Cork. The project resulted in an exhibition at the National Space Centre and digital time capsules from the students’ imagined worlds being sent to space.