KOH, SANGHyuN

kohllections@gmail.com

Koh Sanghyun is an art experimenter who arrogantly and humbly considers the plausibility of owning the universe. He explores ways to embrace various components of the universe all at once in his pieces of art, constantly observing his physical boundaries. “Science” for Koh is one of the most plausible belief systems which dares to describe the universe in a so-called objective frame, and he tests the unfilled gap of axiomatic mythology in science. Koh is willing to fall into naturalistic fallacy while injecting allegorical values into neutral objects, and his work remains as logically defective products.

Solo Exhibitions

1 ≥ ∞ (one is greater than or equal to infinity), Pluripotent Art Space, Seoul (2023)

Geukgeukgongjon (The Pole and the Opposite Always Coexist), Campus D, Seoul (2017)

Feces, Creative Young Artist, Kimchongyoung Museum, Seoul (2017)

Puzzling Examples, Woosuk Gallery, 74 Seoul National University, Seoul (2015)

Group Exhibitions

To Sometimes Disappear, NARS main gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2021)

Space-Honey, NARS main gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2021)

RISD Grad Show, Chace Center, Providence, RI (2020)

Land//Fill//Land, Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI (2019)

Crescendoing, The Wurks, Providence, RI (2019)

Title of the Show, Sol Koffler Galley, Providence, RI (2019)

Humanity Once Again, Seoho Museum of Art, Namyangju, Gyeonggido (2016)

Exodus 3030, University Union, Palaís de Séoul, Seoul (2014)

I am the Future (Exhibition for Young Sculptors), Kimchongyoung Museum, Seoul (2011)

Open Crit House Session, Unofficial Preview, Seoul, (2010)

Education

MFA Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, RI (2020)

Certificate in Collegiate Teaching in Art and Design (CTAD), Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (2020)

Hunter College (CUNY) Studio Art, New York, NY (2018)

MFA Sculpture, Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul, Korea (2016)

BFA Sculpture, Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul, Korea (2011)

Teaching

Instructor, Department of Sculpture, Seoul Arts High school, Seoul (2022-current)

Residency Programs

Season II, New York Art Residency and Studios (NARS) Foundation, Brooklyn, NY (2021)

Season I, New York Art Residency and Studios (NARS) Foundation, Brooklyn, NY (2021)

Awards and Fellowships

International Arts Exchange grant, Arts Council Korea(ARKO), Korea (2021)

VSC Artist’s Grant, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT (2020)

RISD Graduate Fellowship, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island (2018-2020)

Graduate Teaching Assistantship, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island (2018-2020)

K.E.F. (Kwanjeong Educational Foundation) International Full Scholarship, Seoul, Korea (2018-2020)

Interviews

Indecipherable Art by Julie Eunhyung Chung

On the box with Fan Ada Wang and Tongji Philip Qian