Scott Clifford Evans (b. 1979, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA) is an artist, author, and performer living and working in Vienna.
Working across video, performance, film, and installation, Evans explores questions of history, politics, value systems, and collective memory. His video works include "20 out of 19,733 Killing Fields" (2017), a documentation of twenty Khmer Rouge killing fields in Cambodia, and "Manipulating Currency" (2016), first presented at One Work Gallery, Vienna, and subsequently exhibited in London, Berlin, Graz, and Ukraine.
In 2019, Evans produced "Murderkino", an art-trash-horror film and installation project. He was script consultant and performer in "Stinking Dawn", a collaboration between Liam Gillick and Gelatin presented at Kunsthalle Wien, and appeared in Christian Kosmas Mayer’s Memory Palace (2016). His performance practice includes collaborations with Gelatin, notably "Karaoke Machine" at Donaufestival, Krems (2016), and "Schlammgrube 3000", a mud-wrestling performance workshop co-led at Impulstanz Vienna (2019).
Evans has also collaborated extensively with Anna Jermolaewa on video and documentary projects, including "LENINOPAD" (2015), "Political Extras" (2015), "Ecce Multitudo" (2017), and "The Pit" (2019).
Recent exhibitions include a solo presentation at FJK3 Contemporary Art Space (2026) and participation in Lebt und arbeitet in Wien: Contemporary Art from Vienna at Kunsthalle Wien (2026). Since 2018, Evans has taught at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and the University of Art and Design Linz.
