Germaine Koh

Canada

Germaine Koh is a Canadian visual artist based in Vancouver. Her conceptually-generated work is concerned with the significance of everyday actions, familiar objects and common places.


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Germaine Koh
BORN

1967 in Malaysia

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016
Germaine Koh: Home Made Home, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna BC, Canada

2013
Germaine Koh: Weather Systems, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, Canada

2012
Germaine Koh - Knitwork; Germaine Koh/Gordon Hicks - There|Here, Galerie B-312, Montreal, Canada

2010
The Haunting, Invaliden 1 Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2009
Fallow, Charles H Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2008
Germaine Koh, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2007
Germaine Koh: Call and Relay, Video Pool, Winnipeg, Canada
Overflow, Centre A, Vancouver, Canada

2006
Germaine Koh, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada

2005
Knitwork, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Fallow, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Germaine Koh: Relay, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle-Gateshead, UK
Germaine Koh: Shell, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2004
Germaine Koh: Stall, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong

2003
Homemaking, Artspace, Sydney, Australia

2002
Germaine Koh: Open Hours, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Canada
Germaine Koh, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Knitwork, The British Museum, London, UK
"From Material Things: art and artefact in the 21st century" Performance/installation related to conference. Putnam & Gabriela Salgado.

2001
Germaine Koh: Around/About, Plug In ICA and Gallery One One One, Winnipeg, Canada
Germaine Koh, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Solo Exhibition, Watch, Toronto, Canada

2000
Journal, Latitude 53, Edmonton, Canada
by the way, Arte in Situ / La Torre de los Vientos, Mexico City, Mexico

1999
En busca del nivel del lago, Ex Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City, Mexico

1998
Notices, YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto, Canada

1997
Germaine Koh: Knitwork, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Canada
Germaine Koh: Personal, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Canada

1996
Knitwork, eyelevel, Halifax, Canada

1995
Knitwork, Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, Canada

1993
Knitwork/Tricot-âge, B-312, Montreal, Canada

1991
The International Code of Signals Paintings, Gallery 101, Ottawa, Canada

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017
Afterlives, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Persistence, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2016
This is it with it as it is, AHVA Gallery, Audain Art Centre, Vancouver, Canada
(im)mobile, Haus für Kunst Uri, Altdorf, Switzerland

2014
(im)mobile, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada

2013
Les matins infidèles: l'art du protocole, Musée nationale des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, Canada

2011
Scotiabank Nuit Blanche: Zone A Zone A: 'Restaging the Encounter', City of Toronto, Canada
There/Here: Germaine Koh and Gordon Hicks, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, Canada

2010
Sorting Daemons: Art, Surveillance Regimes & Social Control, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Canada

2009
Luminato Festival 2009, Luminato Festival of Arts + Creativity, Toronto, Canada
How Soon Is Now, Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
Here Now or Nowhere, Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie, Canada

2008
Schematic: New Media Art from Canada, [space], London, UK
All Together Now: Recent Toronto Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Untethered, eyebeam, New York, USA
This Particular Day of June, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2007
On Being An Exhibition, Artists Space, New York, USA
Ingenuity Festival 2007, Cleveland, USA
f.city, Folly, Lancaster, UK

2006
ISEA / 01SJ, ISEA 2006 / Zero One San Jose, San Jose, USA
Sobey Art Award Exhibition, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, SK, Canada
Territory, Artspeak and Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2005
Temporary Import / Vorübergehende Einfuhr, Art Forum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Sobey Art Award Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada
Sobey Art Award Exhibition, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, Canada
L'envers des apparences, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Sobey Art Award Exhibition, Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse, Canada

2004
2004 Sobey Art Award Exhibition, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS, Touring 2005-06 to Yukon Art Centre (Whitehorse), Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (Toronto), Mackenzie Art Gallery (Regina)
Sense, Edmonton Art Gallery (now Art Gallery of Alberta), Edmonton, AB, Canada
3rd Liverpool Biennial International, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK,
Entre ciel et terre - Biennale nationale de sculpture contemporaine 2004, Galerie d'Art du Parc, Trois-Rivières, QC, Canada

2003
Psychotopes, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto
Nation, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
re:cycle, McMaster University campus, Hamilton, Canada

2002
IN THROUGH THE OUT DOOR, Power Plant, Toronto
Signage, Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver

2001
Art - Supernatural Fairytales (Pink Island), Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver

2000
Tout le temps / Every Time, Biennale de Montréal, Montreal
Recollection Project, Gendai Gallery, Toronto

1999
Waste Management, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

1998
Every Day: 11th Biennale of Sydney, Biennale of Sydney, Sydney

1995
Home Remedies and Magnificent Obsessions, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle

1994
Monuments in the present tense, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa