Jae Ko
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Jae Ko is a Korean-born artist currently living and working on an island at Piney Point, off the Western shore of Maryland.{{Cite web |url=http://camh.org/exhibitions/jae-ko-flow#.WNqx9RIrJbU |title= Flow 流 | Contemporary Arts Museum Houston|access-date=2017-03-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170329051002/http://camh.org/exhibitions/jae-ko-flow#.WNqx9RIrJbU#.WNqx9RIrJbU |archive-date=2017-03-29 |url-status=dead }}{{cite magazine|title=Reading Paper: A Conversation with Jae Ko|last=Tanguy|first=Sarah|date=September 1, 2007|url=https://sculpturemagazine.art/reading-paper-a-conversation-with-jae-ko/|magazine=Sculpture|accessdate=October 27, 2021}}
Background
Ko attended Toyo Art School in Tokyo, Japan, completing her studies in 1984. She received her BFA in 1988 from Wako University in Tokyo, Japan and her MFA in 1998 from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, Maryland.{{cite web|url=http://marshamateykagallery.com/artists/ko/bio.html|title=Marsha Mateyka Artists - Jae Ko|website=marshamateykagallery.com|accessdate=9 September 2018}}
Work
Ko works in a variety of media — installation, sculpture, vinyl cord drawings, and drawings on paper.
Ko is recognized for using rolled paper to create undulating, kinetic sculpture.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/in-the-galleries-a-homage-to-hillary-is-repurposed/2016/12/15/da55781e-c09f-11e6-897f-918837dae0ae_story.html|title=In the galleries: A 'Homage to Hillary' is repurposed|newspaper=Washington Post|accessdate=9 September 2018}} Ko's pieces range from stark white to the brown of recycled paper to deep blue. Ko's large-scale works can require tens of thousands of pounds of paper to produce, and many hours to install.{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTfF0PkLyw0|title=Jae Ko: Force of Nature, 白 Shiro - Time Lapse Installation - Grounds For Sculpture|last=Grounds For Sculpture|date=7 April 2015|publisher=|accessdate=9 September 2018|via=YouTube}}
Exhibitions
Ko has pieces exhibited as part of public collections at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and ADM in Chicago, among others.{{cite web|url=https://www.jaeko.net/resume|title=resume|website=Jae Ko|accessdate=9 September 2018}} Ko's Untitled JK #526, created in 2006, is a [http://contemporaryartumd.artinterp.org/omeka/20102011-capp-selections part of the collection] of the Contemporary Art Purchasing Program (CAPP) at University of Maryland.
Ko has had many solo exhibitions — most recently at Houston, TX's Contemporary Arts Museum and at Galerie Lausberg in Düsseldorf, Germany.{{cite web|url=http://www.galerie-lausberg.com/en/artists/works/jae-ko/#ad-image-0|title=Works - Galerie Lausberg Düsseldorf|website=www.galerie-lausberg.com|accessdate=9 September 2018}}
Awards
Ko has won awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Maryland State Arts Council and The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc. In 2012, Ko was a recipient of the Anonymous Was A Woman Award.{{cite web |title=Jae Ko |url=https://www.msac.org/artists/jae-ko#/0 |website=Maryland State Arts Council |accessdate=29 April 2020}} The award, granted to 10 women over the age of 45, is a no-strings grant of $25,000 allowing the artists "to continue to grow and pursue their work."
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Category:21st-century South Korean artists