Education
Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
Emily Carr University of Art and Design.
Koh creates handmade books and zines, prints, photographs, sculptures, performances, and installations. Much of his diverse work involves queer, punk, and pornographic sensibilities. In 2008, he was listed in Out magazine"s "Out 100 People of the Year".
Koh was raised in Mississauga, Ontario, and lives in New York City.
He is a Chinese-Canadian artist who received his bachelor"s degree from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver. Terence Koh was shortlisted for the Sobey Art Award in 2008.
He has exhibited widely in the United States and abroad. In the tradition of Piero Manzoni, Koh has gold-plated and sold his own feces for a total of $500,000.00 to collectors.
He is represented by Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Salzburg and Paris.
In 2008 he created the Terence Koh Show on YouTube, in which visitors to his home are either interviewed by Koh, or interview Koh themselves. Each show is usually not more than a few minutes in length. Some episodes are more abstract, such as when he plays the video forward but edits the sound to play backwards.
Notable guests have included Marina Abramović, Hans Ulrich Obrist, and most recently, Lady Gaga.
In the clip with Lady Gaga titled "88 pearls", Koh counts a bowl of pearls with Lady Gaga, who is wearing a costume inspired by Koh"s sculpture from his project Boy By The Sea. Koh"s affiliation with the popular star began at the 2010 Grammys, where Lady Gaga performed on a piano designed by Koh specifically for the occasion.
Koh"s work has been associated with New Gothic Artist In nothingtoodoo, his first solo show at the Mary Boone Gallery, Koh, "dressed in white pajamalike clothes, slowly circl a beautiful cone-shaped pile of rocky solar salt — 8 feet high and 24 feet across — on his knees." So Roberta Smith described the work in an appreciative March, 2011, review.
"This is performance art reduced to a bare and relentless rite in a space that has been stripped down to a kind of temple.
(Its regal proportions help). Maybe the work is an extended apology for past bad-boy behavior.".