Ed Oh was born and raised in Los Angeles, currently living and working in Chicago, IL. His practice is versed in traditional disciplines like painting, drawing, sculpture, and printmaking with bricoleur sensibilities. He is an artist who collects material from daily routines in the forms of objects that are natural and readymade, alive and dead, and particular and universal. Oh has shown found objects, drawings and prints in Art Book fairs while in Chicago, and founded the Terminal Forms Residency, which was inspired by Chicago’s International Airport.
Mixing painting’s traditional methods and contemporary notions of time, Ed Oh uses computer and television screenshots to form a pictorial grid. The work utilizes raster images from online streams of the 2023 Asian Cup, the Asian Football Confederation’s quadrennial tournament. Betraying its linear composition and organizing function, the painting colorizes the patchwork structure of identities and cultures cobbled together for competition’s sake.