Overview
Eric Goh’s dissertation project examines the intersection of craft and religion in contemporary art in Malaysia. He has an MA in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and degrees in economics and real estate development. For his MA thesis he wrote about the works of Malaysian artist Choong Kam Kow from the sixties and seventies to examine the ways that Choong used geometric abstraction to address issues pertaining to industrialization and climate change in New York and Kuala Lumpur. From 2020 to 2021, he led Mutual Aid Projects, an independent project space in Kuala Lumpur which sought to fill the many voids brought about by the pandemic, through friendship, collaboration and a thoughtful exchange of ideas. He is a recipient of the Asian Cultural Council Graduate Fellowship (2024-2025) and serves as a member of the editorial collective of peer-reviewed journal Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia.