School of Contemporary Art (SOCA)

SOCA is an alternative learning program started in 2015. Independently, we provide support to local artists and students who want to further learn about and explore tactical approaches to contemporary artistic practices. We provide a platform for intellectual exchange and critical dialogue about creative mindsets in collaborative settings alongside the artistic community.

Run by self-funded artists (and sometimes in collaboration with galleries and art spaces), SOCA has done 4 regular online programs and artist talks up to now including art workshops and exhibitions. In these workshops, SOCA invites and highlights international artists mostly from cross-media or multidisciplinary backgrounds. Currently, SOCA is active primarily on social media and regularly shares a wide range of approaches and new media art with the public.

SOCA exists at the intersection between local and international art scenes, thus we initiate the knowledge sharing process with our virtual platforms for sharing multimedia art. Our goal is to build up the ethos of our artist community into a developed fulfilling new culture. Our new project, “The Documentation project of Myanmar contemporary Art” (Vol 3) is currently ongoing. It was granted a public exhibition for NYC’s Goethe Institute’s “Re-connect” program in 2021.