EJ Son

EJ Son is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, installation, ceramics and writing. Their practice uses provocation and humour to interrogate power structures in gender, sexuality and race. Through paradox and tension, Son’s work disrupts ingrained binaries, creating space for new subjectivities and emotional registers.

Son holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts (Honours) from Sydney College of the Arts (2018) and is currently a studio artist at the Clothing Store Studios at Carriageworks. They were a finalist in the Ramsay Art Prize, 2025, the Wynne Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2024 and the NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, 2023. Their solo exhibition @ejhotdogs, 2025 was presented at Opens Bae Busan, South Korea following a group show at the gallery in 2024, In between the lines. A new iteration of their work Dancing Teddy, 2024 will be presented at the National Communications Museum (NCM) from October 2025.

Son has shown widely across Australia, including institutional and artist-run initiatives as well as major festivals such as Pitch Festival, 2025, Dark Mofo, 2023 and Parra Lanes, 2023. Exhibiting venues include the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA), Firstdraft, and Bus Projects. Son’s work has been featured in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Guardian, ABC Art Works, Art Collector, and VAULT magazine.