Overview
Eric Goh is interested in modern and contemporary art that treats the region of Southeast Asia as method for prospecting socially-engaged practices. He is also deeply committed to blurring the boundary between fine art and material culture. Currently his work examines how craft, as an ideological and social tool, is invoked as both a curative and obstructive antithesis to colonial, industrial, and digital modernity within the expanded field of craft-based artistic practices in Malaysia.
Eric’s work is supported by the Asian Cultural Council. He has an MA in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and a BA in Economics from the University of Edinburgh. From 2020 to 2021, he led a curatorial project titled Mutual Aid in Kuala Lumpur. Through small solo exhibitions, the project addressed some of the many voids brought about by the pandemic, through collaboration and a thoughtful exchange of ideas. It explored the ambiguities, complexities and richness of friendship while testing the limits and opportunities of the curatorial within that exhibitionary context. Eric currently serves as a member of the editorial collective at Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, published by NUS Press, and as managing editor at ARTMargins, published by MIT Press.