Min Oh

At the intersections of visual art, music, dance, and film, and at the convergence of time-based installations and live performances, Min Oh (b.1975) investigates the language through which the body senses, operates, consumes, and generates time. Drawing from the time-language she cultivated through her early training as a pianist, she explores the contours and interactions between matter and thought in relation to time. Recently, she has been delving into the notion of “Simultaneity,” a hybrid, multi-faceted sensory language that responds to contemporary demands—including the hyper-information capability and the diversity-sensitivity in a highly dynamic environment. “Simultaneity” functions as an apparatus for sculpting space-time, redistributing hybrid conceptual-sensory information engendered and saturated through a substructure where disparate genres, media, and processes converge at their fundamental commonality, forming a non-hierarchical relationship that dissolves the distinctions between “center” and “marginal.”

She has presented her works at De Appel, SeMA (Seoul Museum of Art), Ulsan Art Museum, Daegu Art Museum, M+, MMCA (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art), MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, MCAD (Museum of Contemporary Art and Design), Ilmin Museum of Art, Suwon Museum of Art, Pohang Museum of Art, Kunsthalle Erfurt, and more. She was selected as one of four shortlisted artists for the 2021 Korea Artist Prize, co-organized by MMCA and SBS Foundation, and has received Hermès Foundation Art Prize.