Zoie So is an artist, teacher, Programme Director of the Bachelor of Communication (Hons) in Film (Animation and Media Arts Concentration) programme, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Interactive Media at the Hong Kong Baptist University.

Zoie graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Creative Media from City University of Hong Kong in 2004 and then went on, with the support of several scholarships and art grants, to complete her Master of Fine Arts degree in Studio Arts: Open Media at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, in 2008. She had been teaching at the Visual Studies Department, the Lingnan University of Hong Kong for twelve years before joining the Hong Kong Baptist University in August 2022.

Zoie has been practicing studio art for more than twenty years, and more recently investigating how to integrate her postgraduate studies in material engineering into her creative practice. This has led to an exploration of the effects of state-of-the-art technical potential on human experience. Zoie’s work features the spheres of innovative materials, light art, electronic art, mechanical design, digital graphics, and programming at interplay, communicating to yield sculptures, multimedia installations, and performances of diverse nature. Her works have been exhibited in Hong Kong, Montreal, Ottawa, Milan, Ptuj, Geneva and Ålvik in various media arts events and programmes. Her innovative project City Fenestration was granted a Hong Kong Short-term patent and filed for a China Invention patent in 2020. Her video installation Glimpses was exhibited in This Slow-That Fast: Animamix Biennale 2013-14. Her public sculpture Photosynthesis in Motion was commissioned by the Tamar Public Art Project at the government headquarters. More about her art projects can be found at www.zoieart.com.