Eric Goh

Ph.D. Student in History of Art

Overview

Eric Goh studies modern and contemporary art of Southeast Asia. Some of his current projects include: revisiting turn-of-the-century works of modernists who are left behind by the “global” turn to contemporary art in Malaysia, unpacking Bali as a regional and global node for artistic exchanges throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, and addressing the oversight of geometric abstract discourse in Southeast Asian art. He received his MA in the History of Art and Archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where he researched the works of Malaysian artist Choong Kam Kow from the sixties and seventies to examine the ways in which Choong wielded the dominant languages of modernism to address issues pertaining to industrialization 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 one of the many voids brought about by the pandemic, that of friendship, collaboration, and a thoughtful exchange of ideas. He serves as a member of the editorial collective of Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia.

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