Overview
Eric Goh (Asian Cultural Council Fellow, 2024) studies modern and contemporary art of Southeast Asia. He is currently working on two research projects: examining the place of craft in contemporary art in Malaysia and situating Bali as a regional and global node for artistic exchange throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. He has an MA in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and degrees in economics and real estate development. For his MA thesis he wrote about the works of Malaysian artist Choong Kam Kow from the sixties and seventies to examine the ways that Choong used geometric abstraction to address issues pertaining to industrialization and climate change in New York and Kuala Lumpur. From 2020 to 2021, he led Mutual Aid Projects, an independent project space in Kuala Lumpur which sought to fill one of the many voids brought about by the pandemic, that of friendship, collaboration, and a thoughtful exchange of ideas. He serves as a member of the editorial collective of peer-reviewed journal Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia.