s.ober (b. 1993) makes artwork that investigates spaces where their body, identity, and systems of care intersect.

Scout Ober creates voyeuristic, domestic installations composed from ceramic sculptures, healing totems, and monotype prints that are informed by their lived experiences with madness, invisible disability, trans identity, systemic bureaucracy, and economic precarity. Ober is pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Minnesota, where they have received several awards for their scholastic and artistic merit, including the Fink, Joyce Lyon, and Trenton Evans Scholarships. In 2025, they were nominated for the Beinecke Graduate Scholarship. Their work has been shown at studio 21 in Grand Marais, MN, and is currently on view in the group exhibition Yearning Charge at Quarter Gallery. Their capstone exhibition will be held at the Katherine E. Nash Gallery in 2026.

to the left, jello salad, suboxone wrappers, goldenrod and assorted orange foods arranged on a dark blue table cloth, referencing momento mori paintings. a table and chairs occupy the right picture plane, and an earthenware platter fills nearly the entire tabletop surface.
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