Kai Oh, The Final Chapter, 2024, Acrylic on digital printed silk cotton, wooden stretcher, thread, poplar, yellow bond, and clamp lights, 62 x 78 x 21 in
Workshop with Kai Oh
Kai Oh invites participants to directly engage with her recent explorations that expand the boundaries of photography. In this workshop, participants will bring their own personal photographs to craft a digital collage, which will then be transformed into a tactile, physical artwork using materials such as paper, fabric, thread, and tape—combined with Kai’s imagery of ZeroOne and the inaugural exhibition Contours of Zero.
Photo: Paul Rho
Biography
Kai Oh (b. 1992, Seoul) focuses on expanding the boundaries of photography, capturing the non-human-centric life force in urban spaces through her lens. She places particular emphasis on the fluidity of digital images, exploring their inherent possibilities. Subtle reflections of her cultural background and lived experience as a Korean woman inform her sensitivity to structure, control, and the aesthetics of order. By bringing digital images from the computer into physical space, Oh challenges conventional norms and historical values linked to flat images and wall-bound surfaces, crafting otherworldly scenarios.Kai Oh earned her MFA from Columbia University's School of the Arts and holds bachelor's degrees from Seoul National University and the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg. Her solo exhibitions include Will You Marry Me? (2025) at Subtitled NYC, Half Sticky (2023) at the Industrial Bank of Korea, and Softsharp (2021) at Cylinder in Seoul. She has also been featured in group exhibitions such as GNADE at BBK Künstlerhaus München (2023); The Postmodern Child Part 2 at the Busan Museum of Contemporary Art (2023); Rales, Wheezes and Crackles at Doosan Gallery, Seoul (2022); Super-fine at Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul (2021); and Foam Talent at Foam Amsterdam (2017).