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. In September 2026, Oh will present a solo show at SONGEUN Art Space, Seoul. Recent solo presentations include Summer Triangle at Nook Gallery, Seoul (2025); White at Perigee Gallery, Seoul (2024); and Merestone at Sabrina Amrani Gallery, Madrid (2023). He is the recipient of the 2022 Kim Se-Choong Sculpture Award and the 2021 Song Eun Art Award. 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 2014, he was selected to create a large-scale public installation along the Hudson River in Peekskill, NY. His work is included in the collections of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Orange County Museum of Art; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; and the SongEun Art and Cultural Foundation, Seoul, among others.