CHRIS OH
Born in Portland, Oregon, 1982. Currently lives and works in Queens, NY and Portland, OR.
EDUCATION
2004
BFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Adore, Newchild, Antwerp, Belgium
2023
Passage, Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2021
Chris Oh:Landscapes, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY
2020
Chris Oh: Esprit, solo presentation at Independent, New York, NY
2018
Interiors, Sargent's Daughters, New York, NY
2016
Chris Oh:PLAYS, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
House of Dissociation, THE SHOPHOUSE, Hong Kong, China
A House the Size of a Shell, Galerie Kandlhofer, Vienna, Austria
2025
A boy falling from the sky, Soho Revue, London, UK
As Above, So Below, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
The Rose That Grew From Concrete, curated by Morgan Lucquet Laforgue, Museo Sant’Orsola, Florence, Italy
Friends in Both Places, Nicelle Beauchene, New York, NY
Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes, Off Parsadise, New York, NY
Capsule Filling, Capsule, Hong Kong, China
Fleurs du mal, Silke Lindner, New York, NY
Lovers, Main Projects, Richmond, VA
Penumbra, presented by Newchild Gallery, Frieze No.9 Cork Street, London, UK
Spectral Stepping, Snow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2024
On Alchemy, Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, NY
Monomythology, The Hole, New York, USA (curated by Tania and Thomas Asbæk)
The Golden Ratio, Soho Revue Gallery, London, UK
When We Become Us², Capsule Venice, Venice, Italy (curated by Manuela Lietti)
2023
Portal, Arusha Gallery, London, UK
Pictures Girls Make: Portraitures, curated by Alison M. Gingeras, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Homo Angelicus, curated by Frank Haines, Snow Gallery, New York, NY
2022
Now I am a lake, curated by Rose Nestler, Public Gallery, London
The Views, curated by Zoe Fisher, Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles, CA
2021
In Search of the Miraculous, curated by Jonathan Rider, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
Nine Lives, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY
The Interiors, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY
Desire Encapsulated, Make Room, Los Angeles, CA
Balloons Dropping from a Ceiling Fan, curated by Morgan Blair, Left Field Gallery, Los Osos, CA
Hunters in the Snow, curated by Fortnight Institute, 303 Gallery, New York, NY
2020
Painting is Panting's Food: Art History as Muse, curated by Alison Gingeras, South Etna, Montauk, NY
2019
GARDEN, Shrine/Sargent's Daughters, New York, NY
The Views: Paintings of Windows, Fisher Parrish Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018
Life Expectancy, curated by Joseph Dolinsky, SSD, New York, NY
The Ashtray Show, Fisher Parrish Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
A Tree Falls in the Woods, curated by FMLY Projects, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
2017
Timeshare, curated by Eden Deering and Sydney Fishman, Zaha Hadid 520 West 28th Street, New York, NY
Another Man's Treasure, Edward Ressle Gallery, New York, NY
The Paperweight Show, Fisher Parrish Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016
Summer Reading, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY
Painter Production Parity, Small Editions, Brooklyn, NY
Subcurrent, Galerie Manque, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Philip H. Ashley & Chris Oh, Safe Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Salon Society 2, Salon Society, Brooklyn, NY
Days Have Gone By, Galerie Manque, Brooklyn, NY
Maybe I'm Amazed, curated by Sorry Archive, Knockdown Center, Maspeth, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Halperin, Julia. “True to Size: Why are More Painters Drastically Scaling Down their Work?” The New York Times Style Magazine, 9 Mar. 2025, p. 42.
Vincler, John. “Feminist Nudes, Evil Flowers, and Musical Notation: Three Critics on What to See in New York this March.” Cultured, 5 Mar. 2025. Online.
Yi, Hyun (ed.). “Super Nova – Rising Stars 47.” Art in Culture, Mar. 2025, pp.106-107, 128. DRAIN, Issue no. 2, Nov. 2024, pp. 20-30.
Pallavicini, Paola. “Il rinascimento nordico tra le dita di Chris.” Stanze, 28 Dec. 2024, pp. 126-131.
Sporn, Stephanie. “The Artsy Vanguard 2025: Chris Oh.” Artsy, 21 Oct. 2024. Online.
Wang, Youyou. “”Critics Page: The Emotional Foundations of Everyday Life.” The Brooklyn Rail, July/Aug. 2024. Online.
Gingeras et al. 2024. “Pictures Girls Make”: Portraitures, BLUM, Sept. 9-Oct. 1, 2023. [Exhibition catalogue]. Los Angeles: BLUM Books.
“Portfolio: Chris Oh, Passages”, The Paris Review, Issue no. 247, Spring 2024, pp. 93-108. Thaddeus-Johns, Josie. ”Artsy Editorial: 5 Artists on Our Radar in January 2024.” Artsy, 8 Jan. 2024. Online.
Ebert, Grace. “Reflecting Time Passing, Chris Oh Reinterprets Works of the Northern Renaissance on Ephemeral Substrates.” COLOSSAL, 4 Jan. 2024. Online.
BTR. “Critics Picks: Chris Oh.” Artforum China, 15 Dec. 2023. Online.
White, Katie. "One-to-Watch Chris Oh Replicates Classic Renaissance Imagery Onto Geodes, Shells, and Other Natural Forms to Uncanny Effect." Artnet, 14 July 2023. Online.
Wetzler, Katie. “The Renaissance is Having a Renaissance.” The New York Times Style Magazine, 10 July 2023. Online.
Wise, Louis. “The Renaissance, reborn.” Financial Times, 13 Dec. 2022. Online.
Lakin, Max. “Reviews: Chris Oh, Fortnight Institute.” Artforum, Feb. 2022, pp. 159-60.
Wei, Lilly. “In Search of the Miraculous.” Sculpture Magazine, 10 Dec. 2021. Online.
Kinsella, Eileen. “Editor’s Picks: 14 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week, From a Hand- Drawn Film on Mythological Beasts to a Talk on Artemisia Gentileschi.” ArtNet, 9 Nov. 2021. Online.
Oh, Chris. (2020) Esprit. New York: Fortnight Institute.
Carney, Sean. “Podcast: Chris Oh.” Humor and the Abject, 29 Apr. 2018, https:// humorandtheabject.com/blog/2018/4/29/podcast-chris-oh
Garner, Alex.”Reviews: Chris Oh, Sargent’s Daughters.” Artforum, Apr. 2018, p. 186.
Sokol, Zach. “Across the Spectrum of Taste: In Conversation with Chris Oh.” Art in America, 12 Jan. 2017. Online.
“Gallery: Chris Oh.” Let’s Panic, Issue no. 4. Fall/Winter 2017, pp. 206-7. Oh, Chris. (2016) Codex. Melbourne: Heavy Time Books.
RATs, issue no.2, 2016, pp. 38-41.
