Germaine Koh
Vancouver, Canada

DIY Field, Central Park, Winnipeg

Errant Rain Cloud (with Gordon Hicks), 2019, Minoru Centre for Active Living, Richmond

No. 2 Road North Drainage Pump Station, 2018, No. 2 Road and River Rd, Richmond

GroundWaterSeaLevel, 2014, south end of Chesterfield Ave, North Vancouver


Photo: Scott August
Germaine Koh - Portrait - photo by Scott August

Germaine Koh is a Canadian visual artist based in Vancouver. Her work is concerned with the significance of everyday actions, familiar objects and common places. Her projects in public space seek to create moments of real connection between people and with teh environment around them.

Koh has shown extensively across Canada, and at international venuse such as BALTIC (Newcastle), De Appel (Amsterdam), Para/Site Art Space (Hong Kong), Frankfurter Kunstverein, Seoul Museum of Art, ArtSpace (Sydney), The British Museum (London), and the Sydney and Liverpool Biennials. She was a recipient of the 2010 Shadbolt Foundation VIVA Award and a finalist for the 2004 Sobey Art Award. Formerly an Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada, she is also an independent curator, cofounder of the independent record label weewerk, an sessional faculty at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

From 2012 to 2015 Koh was Artist in Residence at the Elm Park Field House within the Vancouver Park Board Field House Residency Program, where she realized the project League, which gathers members of the community to play invented games and sports as a practice of creative problem-solving in public space. In 2018-19, she was the City of Vancouver's Engineering Artist in Residence.

Artwork nameArtistYearNeighbourhoodProgram
Germaine Koh
2018
Sunset
Civic
Germaine Koh
2009
Downtown
Other
Germaine Koh
2019
Downtown
Private development
Germaine Koh
2019
Downtown
Private development
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