Terence Koh These Decades that We Never Sleep, Black Drums
2004
Drum kit, paint, ropes from a ship found after midnight, black wax, plaster, vegetable matter, crushed insect parts, artist's blood and cum
Stool, 50 x 30cm 100 x 163 x 100cm
Terence Koh These Decades that We Never Sleep, Black Light
2004
Crystal chandelier, paint, lollipops, vegetable matter, human and horse hair, mineral oil, rope from a ship found after midnight, glass shards, stones and artist's blood and shit
Sculpture, plaster cast of Hermes the god covered in diamond dust, sugar and paint, enclosed in glass vitrine
60 x 35 x 35 cm
Terence Koh Do no doubt the dangerous of my butterfly song
2004
Metal vitrine, speakers, ipod, song with artist singing in his own private language, paint, hair, male battus philenor butterfly and blackened ash from a gingko tree
155 x 46 x 114 cm
Terence Koh's BIOGRAPHY
Born in 1980, Beijing, China
Lives and works in New York City
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Secret Societies, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Nothingtoodoo, mary Boone Gallery, New York
2009 Adansonias: A Tragic Opera in 8 acts, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2008 Flowers For Baudelaire, Vito Schnabel, New York, United States
The Whole Family, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, United States
Love for Eternity, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain
Captain Buddha, curated by Dr. Martina Weinhart, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Dirty Blind God, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich, Switzerland
2007 God, de Pury and Luxembourg, Zurich, Switzerland
Blame Canada, (with Bruce LaBruce), Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
Solo Exhibition, curated by Shamim Momin, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, United States
2006 Terence Koh, curated by Beatrix Ruf, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Buddha Fly Earth, Asia Song Society, New York, United States
Sprungkopf, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
2005 Mein Tod Mein Tod, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
Gone, Yet Still (with catalogue), Wien Secession, Vienna, Austria
The Voyage of Lady Midnight Snowdrops Through Double Star Death, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, United States
2004 Do Not Doubt the Dangerousness of My Butterfly Song, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, United States
Koh & 50 Most Beautiful Boy, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, United States
2003 The Whole Family, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, United States
2010 Post Monument,XIV Carrara Biennale, Italy
Group Show, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Art Unlimited" (with Thaddeus Ropac Gallery), Art Basel, Switzerland
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, curated by Jeff Koons, The New Museum, New York, United States
The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom
2009 Contemporary Artifices and Baroque Difformities, curated by Claudia Gioia, with the scientific direction of Danilo Eccher, ARCOS-Sannio Museum of Contemporary Art, Benevuto, Italy
Compassion, curated by AA Bronson, The Institute of Art, Religion, and Social Justice, New York, United States
Degeneration/Regeneration, Marina Abromovic Institute, San Francisco, United States
The Embassy, curated by Xerxes Cook and Alex Dellal, 33 Portland Place, London, United Kingdom
Performa - visual performance art biennial, New York City, United States
New York Minute, curated by Kathy Grayson, Macro Future Museum, Rome, Italy
Artists' Art / Artists' Books, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, New York State, United States
Mexico: Expected/Unexpected, Colección Isabel y AgustÃn Coppel, Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Minneapolis, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, United States
Marina Abramovic Presents..., The Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
The Collectors, curated by Elmgreen and Dragset, Danish and Nordic Pavilions, 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Elevator to the Gallows, Galerie im Regierungsviertel / Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin, Germany
Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin X Initiative, New York, United States
Story without a Name, curated by Blair Taylor, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Private, Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
The Collectors, curated by Elmgreen and Dragset, Danish and Nordic Pavilions, 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
KKK, curated by Javier Peres, three person show with Terence Koh, Jeff Koons, and Mike Kelley, Mary Boone, New York, United States
Get A Rope, curated by Kathy Grayson, CTRL Gallery, Houston, Texas, United States
2008 21: Contemporary Art, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, United States
The Temptation to Exist, Yvon Lambert, London, United Kingdom
Political Minimalism, curated by Klaus Biesenbach, Kunst Werke, Berlin, Germany
FRAGILE, Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf
Materialized: New Video in the Third Dimension, curated by Kathy Grayson, Bergen Kunsthalle, Norway
Expenditure, Busan Biennale 2008, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, Korea
The Boys of Summer, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, United States
Yokohama Triennial, Yokohama, Japan
The Zabludowicz Collection: When We Build, Let Us Think That We Build Forever, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom
Eurasia. Geographic Cross-Overs in Art, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea die Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Italy
Meet Me Around the Corner – Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection," Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
Expected Unexpected Mexico, Collection of Augustin and Isabel Coppel, curated by Monica Amor, Maison Rouge, Paris, France
New York States of Mind, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, United States
Gravity: Selected works from the Ernesto Esposito Collection, Museo Artium, Vitorai, Spain
2007 Fractured Figure, curated by Jeffrey Deitch, selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
Unholy Truths, Initial Access, Frank Cohen Collection, Manchester, United Kingdom
Destroy Athens, First Athens Biennial, Athens, Greece
BODYPOLITICX, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Holland
How Much Longer, Belkin Satellite, Vancouver, Canada
Sweet Bird of Youth, curated by Hedi Slimane, Arndt & Parter, Berlin, Germany
Between 2 Deaths,curated by Ellen Blumenstein and Felix Ensslin, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Germany
2006 USA Today, in conjunction with the Saatchi Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom
The Gold Standard, Curated by Bob Nickas, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, United States
WAR on .45/MY MIRRORS Are PAINTED BLACK (for you), Bortolami Dayan, New York, United States
Cosmic Wonder, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, United States
Dark, curated by Rein Wolfs and Jan Grosfeld, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland
A Lover's Discourse: Nobuyoshi Araki, Annette Kelm, Terence Koh, Sakiko Nomura, Heinz Peter Knes, Marcos Rosales,curated by Dean Sameshima, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, United States
2005 The Black Album, Maureen Paley Interim Art, London, United Kingdom
Log Cabin, curated by Jeffrey Uslip, Artist Space, New York
2004 The Temple of Golden Piss, Extra City, Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
Phiiliip: Divided by Lightning, Deitch Projects, New York, United States
Whitney Biennial,The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, United States
2003 Now Playing, D'Amelio Terras, New York, United States
Today's Man, Traveling Show, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo