Terrence Koh's sculptures are born of queer youth culture and luxurious decadence. Exuding a magnetic sensuality, These Decades that We Never Sleep, Black Drums is an object of obsession, its ebony coils trailing with enticement, visually echoing waves of noise. Luring with its swarthy depths, ?Black Drums creates a suggestive void: of memory and fantasy, drawing connotations of art history, gothic subculture, and fetish gear. Using raw materials of cloth, metal, and plaster, Koh's sculpture beacons with tactility, mirroring yearning and loss as physical desire.
BIOGRAPHY Born in Beijing, China Lives and works in New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 Solo Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2006 Solo Exhibition, Kunsthalle Z'rich, Z'rich, Switzerland Buddha Fly Earth, Asia Song Society, New York Solo Exhibition, Statements Art Basel, Peres Projects Future Cock, Asia Song Society, New York
2005 Gone, yet still, Secession, Vienna, Austria Mein Tod Mein Tod, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
2004 Koh & 50 Most Beautiful Boy, Peres Projects, Los Angeles Do Not Doubt the Dangerousness of My Butterfly Song, Peres Projects, Los Angeles
2003 The Whole Family, Peres Projects, Los Angeles
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006 USA Today, Royal Academy of Arts, London, in conjunction with the Saatchi Gallery, London The Gold Standard, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York WAR on 45 / MY MIRRORS Are PAINTED BLACK (For You) Curated by Banks Violette, Bortolami Dayan, New York Let's go Kamping!! Kamp K48 at John Connelly Presents, New York The Beat, Haswllediger & Co. Gallery, New York Cosmic Wonder, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Dark, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands A Lover's Discourse: Nobuyoshi Araki, Annette Kelm, Terence Koh, Sakiko Nomura, Heinz Peter Knes, Marcos Rosales, Peres Projects, Los Angeles
2005 Blankness Is Not A Void, Standard, Oslo The Zine UnBound: Kults, Werewolves and Sarcastic Hippies, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California No Ordinary Sanctity, Deutsche Bank, Salzburg, Austria Log Cabin, Artist Space, New York
2004 Do a Book: Asian Artists Summer Project 2004, Plum Blossoms, New York Phiiliip: Divided by Lightning, Deitch Projects, New York The Temple of the Golden piss,Extra City Center for Contemporary, Antwerp, Belgium The Black Album, Maureen Paley Interim Art, London Get Off! Exploring the Pleasure Principal, Museum of Sex, New York Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Article Theme :- Terrence Koh's description indicates both the diversity of his art and the queer, punk, and pornographic sensibilities that inform his creations. He reappropriates images from the Internet, magazines, and other artists in the service of a personal exploration that is by turn innocently sweet and rugged.
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Aleksandra Mir constructed a lunar landscape out of sand, erected an American flag on the highest peak, and declared herself 'The First Woman on the Moon.' The year before, in Norway, Mir teamed up with a local unemployment agency and showed a series of Hollywood disaster films, running them only during work hours, for the city's unemployed. In Denmark in 1996, she set up twenty six speakers in a town square and broadcast the sound of men whistling as women walked by. Earlier this year, she proposed the building of an exact-scale replica of Stonehenge, only a few miles from the original site. Unlike the first, 'Stonehenge II' offers full access to visitors-down to a 'Stonehenge' soccer team that uses the rocks as goalposts.
BIOGRAPHY
1970 Born in Lubin, Poland, Citizen of Sweden Lives and works in New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005 WELCOME Sometimes, Greengrassi Gallery, London Aeropuerto, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona Baloise Art Prize: Aleksandra Mir - The Big Umbrella, SMAK, Ghent The World from Above, Lisboa 20 Arte Contemporanea, Lisboa Organized Movement', Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth The Most Beautiful Thing Today, White Columns, NYC. NEW DESIGNS: Birth, Death and Abortion, Andrew Roth Inc, New York Love Stories, Fundacion NMAC, Montenmedio Narvik Superstars, Kunst I Nordland, Narvik
2004 Living & Loving #2'The Biography of Zoe Stillpass, Frieze Art Fair, London The Big Umbrella (New York), PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York The Big Umbrella (Copenhagen/Dresden), Statements, Basel The World from Above, greengrassi, London Naming Tokyo (part III), ICA, Philadelphia
2003 Happy Holidays, The Wrong gallery, New York The Big Umbrella (Paris), Jousse enterprise, Paris. Naming Tokyo (part II), Swiss Institute, New York Plane Landing, Compton Verney House Trust, Warwickshire Welcome back to Earth, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St Gallen. HELLO Ringier, Ringier annual report, Zurich Corporate Mentality, Lukas & Sternberg, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005 GuestRoom #2, Museum Heit Domein, Sittard Organized Movement', Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York Return To Space, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg Encore, Istanbul Foundation for Cultural and Arts, Istanbul A Lucky Strike: Kunst findet Stadt, GAK, Bremen Bonds of Love, John Connelly Presents, New York The Gesture. A Visual Library in Progress, Oxymoron, Athens; Quarter, Florence Merit Badge, 445 Old State Road 82, Craryville Publish and be Damned, Outpost gallery, Norfolk; LOT, Bristol; Display, Praha Someone somewhere is furiously traveling towards you, La Casa Encendida, Madrid Largo Alcance, Centro de Arte Santa Monica, Bracelona Social Democracy Revisited, Apexart, New York Post No Bills, White Columns, New York Trade, White Columns, New York Social Democracy Revisited', Apexart, New York Monuments for the USA, CCAC Wattis Institute, San Francisco Tea and video art, Locus, Athens
Aleksandra Mir birthday edition of the New York tabloid designed to "reclaim" her birthday, which falls on September 11. For Naming Tokyo, dozens of acquaintances inside and outside the art world pitched in with thematic lists of suggested street names--Italian swear words, Vivienne Westwood's couture collections, New York City drag queens--which were then published on a large handout map with a blank Tokyo city grid on one side and selected rechristenings on the other
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