Germaine KOH

Born

1967 in Malaysia

Solo Exhibitions

2025
League, Nanaimo, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, Canada

2023
WARES, The Cabinet, Simon Fraser University School for the Contemporary Art, Vancouver, Canada

2021
Germaine Koh: Processes, AMS Hatch Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
He Hunting II, Audain Art Centre at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Koerner Artist in Residence, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

2020
Crowd Shyness, Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2019
Home Made Home, Patch Work, Robert Mclaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Canada

2018
Home Made Home, Evergreen Cultural Centre, Coquitlam, Canda
Home Made Home, Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, Canda
Engineering Artist-in-Residence, City of Vancouver, Vancouber, Canada

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

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

2012
Germaine Koh and Gordon Hicks – There|Here, Galerie B-312, Montreal, Canada

2011
There/Here: Germaine Koh and Gordon Hicks, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, 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 Media Arts Centre, 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

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

2025
TENXTEN, Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver, Canada
Care / Condition / Control, 601Artspace, New York, USA

2024
Rise/Fall: Works from the Permanent Collection, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, Canada
The Prop House: A Collection of One Million Objects, Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver, Canada
Art School Confidential, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
Re:location, Salt Sprint Arts Council, Salt Spring Island, Canada

2023
The Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Supply Chian Issues, MKG127, Toronto, Canada

2022
Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, USA
Reading the Land: Ten Years of Collecting, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, Canada
Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts, The Rooms, Saint John’s, Canada

2021
Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Canada
Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts, Kamloops Art Gallery, Kamloops, Canada

2020
Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2019
Split Between the I and the Gaze, Anges Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Canada
Public Volumes, Small Arms Inspection Building, Mississauga, Canada
SilvrettAtelier exhibition, Kunstforum Montafon, Schruns, Austra
SilvrettAtelier exhibition, Kuenstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz, Austra

2018
Small Housing Showcase, Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre, Vancouver, Canada
What Are Our Supports?, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Beginning with the Seventies: GLUT, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2017
Afterlives, Or Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Home/Shelter/Belonging, West Vancouver Museum, 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

2015
Lively Objects: Enchantment and Disruption, Museum of Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada

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
Scotiabank Nuit Blanche 2013, The n Games, Nuit Blanche edition, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada
Secret Stash: Accumulation, Hoarding and the Love of Stuff, McIntosh Gallery at Western University, London, Canada

2011
The Grand Domestic Revolution – User’s Manual, Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht, the Netherland
By Sea, Land and Air, We Prosper, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai, China
Scotiabank Nuit Blanche: Zone A Zone A: ‘Restaging the Encounter’, City of Toronto, Canada
CO-LAB, Centre A, Vancouver, Canada
Door to Door series, Blackwood Gallery at University of Toronto Mississauga, 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, Canada
Nation, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
re:cycle, McMaster University campus, Hamilton, Canada

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

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

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

1999
Waste Management, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

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

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

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