Terence Koh

Terence Koh (born in Beijing, China, 1977) is a Canadian artist.

Biography

Koh was raised in Mississauga, Ontario, and lives in New York City. He is a Chinese-Canadian artist who received his Bachelor degree from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver. Koh has also worked under the alias "asianpunkboy", though it appears that name has been retired.

Terence Koh was shortlisted for the SOBEY awards in 2008. He has exhibited widely in the United States and abroad. Koh's work been the subject of several major solo exhibitions including "Love for Eternity", a mid-career retrospective at MUSAC (Leon, Spain); "Captain Buddha," Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt, Germany); "Dirty Blind God", de Pury & Luxembourg, (Zurich, Switzerland); "Terence Koh" Whitney Museum of American Art, (New York).

Artwork

Terence Koh creates handmade books and zines, prints, photographs, sculptures, performances, and installations. Much of his diverse work involves queer, punk, and pornographic sensibilities.

Koh is represented by Javier Peres of Peres Projects Gallery in Los Angeles and Berlin and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Salzburg and Paris.

External links

* [http://www.peresprojects.com/artist-bio/terence-koh/ Peres Projects: Terence Koh]
* [http://www.deitch.com/projects/sub.php?projId=214 Deitch Projects: Terence Koh]
* [http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/terence_koh.htm Saatchi Gallery: Terence Koh]
* [http://www.asianpunkboy.com Terence Koh website]
* [http://www.kohbirdy.com Koh Birdy] - Terence Koh Project
* [http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=94587&searchid=24349 Work in the Tate gallery]
* [http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/asia/la-et-galleries23-2008may23,0,5624771.story LA Times article (05/2008)]
* [http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article3137653.ece Times article (01/2008)]
* [http://nymag.com/arts/art/features/26275/ New York magazine article (01/2007)]