Jong Oh
Jong Oh (b. 1981, Mauritania) lives and works in Seoul, South Korea. Oh creates minimal sculptures that respond to the given spatial situation. He explains that his artistic process involves carefully observing the subtle features of a space and then constructing delicate spatial compositions using suspended Plexiglas and painted string. These components shift in relation to the viewer's position, sometimes appearing to connect or overlap. As people move through and around these installations, they engage with the tension between three-dimensional form and flatness, and between wholeness and fragmentation. Ultimately, the experience invites reflection on the fluid nature of perception.
Oh works with a deliberately limited range of materials, rearranging them to create compositions that often seem to float or barely hold together. Light and shadow play an important role in these arrangements, extending their impact and sometimes creating the illusion of depth or movement. Through this careful balance of line and space, Oh explores the limits of perception, encouraging viewers to slow down and pay attention to the finer details often overlooked in everyday life. Moving between sculpture, installation, and spatial intervention, his work is less about telling a story than offering a quiet visual experience-one that feels carefully composed, like a minimalist poem of space and structure.
Jong Oh received his BFA from Hongik University in Seoul and his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions internationally. In 2018, he presented a solo exhibition at the Seoul Museum of Art and participated in Sculpting With Air, a two-person exhibition at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA, and Every Day Is a Good Day at SPIRAL in Tokyo, Japan. In 2016, he had a solo exhibition at the University of Connecticut Art Galleries. Between 2014 and 2015, his work was shown in solo exhibitions at Galerie Krinzinger in Austria, Jochen Hempel in Leipzig, and MARSO in Mexico City. In 2014, he was selected to create a large-scale public installation along the Hudson River in Peekskill, NY.
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Jong Oh
May 20 - July 24, 2021 Lower East Side -
Jong Oh
September 8 - October 16, 2018 Lower East Side -
Every Day Is a Good Day
Jong Oh & Jinsu Han August 6 - 12, 2018 Lower East Side -
The White Heat
June 3 - July 14, 2017 Lower East Side -
The Apotheosis of the Fish Market
Jong Oh & Jinsu Han October 14 - December 11, 2016 Lower East Side -
Jong Oh
January 10 - February 26, 2016 Lower East Side -
Gray Would Be the Color, If I Had a Heart
June 21 - July 31, 2015 Lower East Side -
Xigue – Xigue
July 2 - August 1, 2014 Lower East Side -
Along the Lines
Jong Oh & Florian Schmidt May 4 - June 22, 2014 Lower East Side -
Jong Oh
Tintinnabulation October 6 - November 3, 2013 Lower East Side -
On Deck
July 11 - August 23, 2013 Lower East Side -
Nothing and Everything
January 6 - February 8, 2013 Lower East Side -
Jong Oh
April 1 - May 6, 2012 Lower East Side
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Jong Oh on ArtReview
April 10, 2025 -
Jong Oh Wins Kim Se-Choong Sculpture Award
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Jong Oh at Doosan Art Center
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Jong Oh at Doosan Gallery
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Jong Oh in The Boston Globe
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Jong Oh at deCordova Museum
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Jong Oh at Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
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Jong Oh Interviewed
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Jong Oh at Contemporary Art Galleries, UCONN
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Jong Oh in The Brooklyn Rail
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Jong Oh at Jochen Hempel
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Jong Oh in The New York Times
July 14, 2012