Overview
Eric Goh’s dissertation examines how questions of provenance and media hierarchies have shaped the trajectories of craft in Malaysian modernism and contemporary art, situating Malaysia as a critical site for contributing to global debates on art and craft. His broader interests include ecocriticism, socially engaged practices, and the anthropology of art.
He holds an MA in Art History from NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, where his thesis examined Choong Kam Kow’s geometric abstractions of the 1960s–70s, and a BA in Economics from the University of Edinburgh. He was an Asian Cultural Council Fellow (2024–25). He founded Mutual Aid Projects (2020–21) in Kuala Lumpur, an independent project space that explored the limits and possibilities of the curatorial through small solo exhibitions. He serves as Managing Editor of ARTMargins (MIT Press) and a member of the editorial collective of Southeast of Now (NUS Press).