Pari
Nadimi gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of the new
gallery artist, Michael Euyung Oh. Michael Euyung Oh is
a Vancouver-based artist working within the legacy of conceptual
art. Broadening and often subverting the notion of the conceptual,
Oh has produced a series of ranking projects that challenge
the historical and contemporary notions of aesthetics, politicality,
and subjectivity. In his 200 Sex Offenders
(2000-2001), for example, Oh has gathered and ranked two hundred mug
shot photographs of registered
sex offenders according to “the artist’s aesthetic judgment”.
Similarly, he has ranked 192 national flags
representing all the members of the United Nations Committee in his
latter installation piece entitled 192
National Flags (2001-2002).
Michael Euyung Oh’s exhibition at the Pari Nadimi is centred
around the installation piece entitled 100
Popular First Names (2004-2005). In this project, Oh has ranked one
hundred of the most popular baby
names published by the Social Security Administration in 2004 according
to his aesthetic judgment. Two of
the other works included in the exhibition are National Anthem Favorites
(2005) and 26 Navy Signal Flags
(2004).
Oh’s work has been exhibited internationally in London, Vienna,
Geneva, Turin, and Seoul. Recent exhibitions
and projects include Classified Materials: Accumulations, Archives,
Artists, Vancouver Art Gallery (2005);
Public 28: Satan Oscillate My Metallic Sonatas, Contemporary Art Gallery,
Vancouver (2004); Parallax View,
the Western Front, Vancouver (2003); Sphere, Presentation House Gallery,
Vancouver (2003); and About
Time, Canadian Embassy Gallery, Washington, DC (2003).
Michael Euyung Oh was born in Seoul, Korea, 1976. He lives and works
in Vancouver, BC.
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