There's an 8-page spread of my recent collage work in the latest issue of Plume, a publication of the College for Creative Studies Library. Print copies are available on campus, and a digital version may be viewed HERE.

My buttons magnets stickers and zines galleries have ordering options now. You can make purchases directly with Venmo or PayPal. All prices include shipping.

If you plan to order more than one item, please email me with your shopping list for reduced rates.

New assemblage and analog text collages in the exhibition Desire at Hatch in Hamtramck, October 8-November 5, 2022.

Image: Looker, Scott Northrup, 2022

Metropolitan Museum Of Design Detroit (MM-O-DD) presents detroitUNDERGROUND 69 as a platform for educational enrichment and as an experiential opportunity. Each year MM-O-DD's research and curatorial council will select a different music, dance or creative platform which meshes with the Design Industry. The Detroit underground scene has an intense relationship focused on graphic, fashion and product Design and more. For 2022 we will focus on PUNK culture.

We researched and asked the 'originals' aka those who were there back in the 1970's-1990's as we developed the exhibition with their guidance through their watchful eye. We aim to be authentic as we honor those who were there then and now. The Detroit Punk scene is not Dead!

The exhibition includes Northrup's Rolling Blackouts, a new 4-channel video self-portrait made from his personal archive of unseen VHS tapes (1989), Super 8 film (1991), jammed Atari 2600 cartridges (1998), and HD videos (2010s).
MM-O-DD September 3—October 23.

The Ann Arbor Film Film Festival has published the essay I wrote for the 60th AAFF program on their blog: Sadie Benning: Pixelvisions. Read it!

Mighty Real/Queer Detroit is a month-long historical exhibition devoted to 77 years (1945-2022) of the diversity of Detroit LGBTQ+ art, artists, and longtime allies. The exhibition features established & emerging Detroit artists, as well as artists whose careers were shortened by HIV/AIDS.

Scott Northrup's work can be found at:
Anton Art Center
Collected Detroit
College for Creative Studies
Galerie Camille
Playground Detroit

His films Alone. (2022) and Hämeenkyrö Redux (2018) will be included in a program of short film and video works Sunday, June 26 at 6pm at College for Creative Studies' Taubman Center located at 460 W Baltimore Ave, Detroit. The program will begin with a screening of The Beauty President.

I was invited to program a screening of Sadie Benning's early Pixelvision works for the 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival, and write a companion essay for the program. This is the first time these works have been screened at the AAFF! The screening is on Friday, March 25, 7pm in the Michigan Theater Screening Room. Click HERE for ticketing info.

Stream my textual film Alone. via Media City.

Media City Film Festival offers unprecedented access to cinematic treasures—over 70 artist films are streaming globally for free in celebration of its 25th anniversary.

MCFF 2022 ARTISTS: Morgan Quaintance . Peter Tscherkassky . Onyeka Igwe . Malena Szlam . Pablo Álvarez Mesa . Chris Kennedy . Ana Vaz . Cecilia Vicuña . Mary Helena Clark . Ute Aurand . Ulysses Jenkins . Michael Robinson . Ben Russell . Carolee Schneemann . Rajee Samarasinghe . Suneil Sanzgiri . Ben Rivers . Eva Giolo . Beatriz Santiago Muñoz . John Price . Lindsay McIntyre . Sky Hopinka . Jayne Parker . Ross Meckfessel . Friedl vom Gröller (Kubelka) . Zachary Epcar . Parastoo Anoushahpour . Faraz Anoushahpour . Ryan Ferko . Alexandra Cuesta . Tracey Moffatt . Pablo Mazzolo . Kevin Jerome Everson . Riar Rizaldi . Shireen Seno . Rhea Storr . Simon Liu . Sílvia das Fadas . Thirza Cuthand . Sergei Parajanov . Luther Price . L.Franklin Gilliam . Tony Cokes . Ximena Cuevas . Tânia Dinis . Michael Hubbard . The ManosBuckius Cooperative . bree gant . Sally Lawton . Michele Goulette . Scott Northrup . Jack Cronin . Derek Jenkins . Bawaadan Collective . Joseph Bernard . Christopher Bissonnette . Garth Jackson . Kayla Anderson . Natasha Beste . Paul Echeverria . Daïchi Saïto . Karpo Godina

Recently at Public Pool.

Life is But A Dream at Galerie Camille

Mary Fortuna
Scott Northrup
Luzhen Qiu
Sarah Rose Sharp

October 1-30, 2021

Life Is But A Dream is a visually poetic fever-dream exhibition featuring four prolific Detroit based artists each exploring their own dream-like themes. Visitors will experience feathers, bones and stones delicately balanced and suspended on an earth mobile by Fortuna. Sharp’s embroidered fiber paintings and intricately adorned doll-houses. Sacred thoughts in collage and film form by Northrup; and striking and psychological multi-layered vellum collage drawings by Qiu. All of which makes for a quadruple-layered hallucination for our retinas to absorb.

Join us on Friday, October 1st for the opening reception, 25 people per hour and tickets via Eventbrite.

Gallery hours: Weds-Sat, 12-5pm.

An artist talk will be held at the gallery with limited seating of 25 people on October 9th at 2pm. Masks required.

Daisy Chain, June 30

Ruth Leonela Buentello
Abigail DeVille
Hubert Massey
Shanna Merola
Scott Northrup
David Opdyke
Shani Peters
Sheida Soleimani
Jeffrey Augustine Songco

Curated by Amanda Krugliak

A conceptual group exhibition with University of Michigan's Institute for the Humanities exploring the connections between artists, their ideas, and their creative work. The name refers to the traditional string of daisies threaded together by their stems, as well as the contemporary wiring scheme by the same name used in electronics and engineering.

For this Daisy Chain, nine regional and national artists with diverse experiences, perspectives, and practices were each interviewed by Institute for the Humanities Curator Amanda Krugliak. Each of them was asked the same series of questions. Among them were: How do you feel you are emerging from the past year? What kind of world are you trying to build for the future? How are you thinking about responsiveness and responsibility? Are there any creative strategies you have identified moving forward?

Their answers—along with images of their work—have been “strung together” visually in video format, one artist connecting to another in sequence.

In this time of re-entry, when we are cautiously emerging from a year in isolation, and also merging back into action at breakneck speed, Daisy Chain offers the opportunity for contemplation in its assemblage of artists, art, and ideas. It explores the ties that bind us, the past and the future, and the loose ends. Perhaps as important, it alludes to surprising and new combinations, and a renewed capacity to find joy.

Public Pool is representing me for this year's Art Mile. I have an exhibition scheduled for their physical space with Mary Fortuna at the end of this year.

NOW STREAMING on DAILY RUSH, the streaming platform of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) and on view in the museum ... Stupor: TOUCHY FEELY, a companion film (see the trailer below) to the issue of Steve Hughes' long-running zine Stupor that I illustrated, which is also available at the MOCAD bookstore or through Steve and me directly (hey—they're only 2 bucks!). A little background ... Steve and I collected hook-up stories from people in Hamtramck bars, he turned them into short stories, I illustrated + laid out the zine, then the pandemic happened and we couldn't have a release party, so...we invited director/performer Kaitlyn Valor Bourque to cast actors to perform + film each story as a monologue, The Hentchmen let us use some music, and I made this film from all the disparate parts. Watch it now!

I collaborated with writer Steve Hughes on the Touchy Feely issue of his long-running zine Stupor and it's finally seeing the light of day! (See my zines page.) During quarantine this past year we worked with Director-Performer Kaitlyn Valor Bourque to make a companion film. Both are coming to MOCAD this summer! Checkout the film trailer now! Catch the film on MOCAD's Daily Rush starting June 4.

A few of my students are finalists for this year's DAM Scholarship and I was asked to exhibit a piece alongside their work.

March 12 — April 17, 2021 at Detroit Artists Market.

You can now listen to two of my stories on the Ditto Ditto Recorded Reading Archive. Saturday and AIWMLWA (As I Watch My Life Whirl Away) are waiting for you.

2000 through 2012 brought a renaissance of self-made artist run spaces in Detroit. Rent was low, space was unlimited, and artists cooperated to bring engaging shows. Coming off a prosperous decade and a world being reshaped by the internet, this was a new beginning… an awakening… an inclusive paradigm shift. Salad Days explores the subculture and work of artists who were working in Detroit in the aughts (2000s), and also features current work reflecting that time period.

“Salad days” is a Shakespearean idiomatic expression meaning a youthful time.

January 22 — February 20, 2021 at Detroit Artists Market

Read about it on Detroit Art Review

I have recently contributed some text to a new 'text blanket', part of an ongoing international project by the artists Tracy Mackenna and Edwin Janssen, through The Museum of Loss and Renewal in Collemacchia, Italy. More to come as this piece evolves.

I have work in the online group exhibition Private Behavior at White Columns curated by Lauren Marinaro, of Marinaro in Chinatown/Manhattan.
The gallery is up through September 12, 2020.

Independent Film Festival Ypsilanti (IFFY) has moved online and announced new screening dates: August 20-22, 2020 with a special drive-in screening in Ypsilanti on 8/20.

My recent short my funny valentine will stream Saturday, August 22nd at 7pm. A history of bad boys and mating rituals, from Palatino to suburbia.

Tickets are pay what you can with all proceeds donated to We The People Opportunity Farm in Ypsilanti.

Click on the link above for more info.

GALLERY HOURS HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED DUE TO COVID-19.

I have a new collage in the group exhibition "U Up?" at KO Studio Gallery. The exhibition seeks to disarm the seemingly-innocent inquiry “U Up?”, typically sent in context of casual sex, and rather, use it to sum up what messaging looks like in the 21st century.

Featured artists: Kit Parks, Lucy Cahill, Scott Northrup, Sylvie Demers, Ash Nowak, Steven Shik, Grace Millard, Scott Mullen, Justin Hein, Chris Newman, Emily Wood, Nathan Edmiston, Stephen Cavanaugh, Justine Allenette Ross, Andrea Del Rio, Frank Lepkowski, Joe Martinez, Jeffrey Evergreen, Meredith Miotke, Narciso Espiritu, Lorenza Centi, Max Majoros.

March 6-28, 2020, 12-3pm Saturdays.
Opening March 6, 7-10pm.

KO Studio Gallery
9536 Joseph Campau
Hamtramck, MI 48212

PLACE, PEOPLE, and TIME: publishing as an artistic practice

This collective publication brings together the art works, visual material and texts produced by the participants in The Museum of Loss and Renewal's and My Bookcase's collaborative Place, People and Time Guided Group Residency, 2019. The artist participants were Adrian Quezada Ruiz, Berta Ferrer, Corinne Thiessen, Dorte Gotlieb, Emily Fong, Fernanda Aranguiz M., Leah Anderson, Mary Lilith Fischer, and Scott Northrup.