Jae Ko

Born in 1961, Korean artist Jae Ko attended the Tokyo art school and received a BA from the Wako University in Japan and a MFA from the Maryland Institute of Art in Baltimore, USA. She currently lives and works in Maryland, USA.

 

Jae Ko creates a new visual language with elegant spirals and ribbon installations that can take on monumental proportions. She finds inspiration in nature, and her forms readily evoke organic matter-tree rings, tornadoes, roots, branches or seeds. The intuitive design of each of Ko's sculptures are made from miles of everyday office, recycled paper or adding-machine tapes, which she unwinds and reshapes, bathes in vats of ink and then lets dry out over months. Her seductive work occupies a space between writing and sculpting; a biomorphic form that often looks like a swollen calligraphic mark.

 

 In 2002, Jae Ko received the Pollock-Krasner grant. In 2012, she was awarded the prestigious 'Anonymous Was A Woman' art award and The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC mounted Ko's installation of "Force of Nature". Her work is part of prestigious private and public collections such as the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Phillips Collection in Washington DC, the Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington DC, the Washington D.C. Convention Center, Wilson Building, Washington, DC and the ADM in Chicago, IL amongst others.

Image courtesy of the artist

SELECTED WORKS

Jae Ko JK1007 Ultramarine Blue2019

Rolled paper, colored ink and glue

71 x 79 x 16 cm | 28 x 31.1 x 6.3 in

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Jae Ko JK454 Wine Carmine with Orange2018

Rolled paper, colored ink and glue

38 x 51 x 13 cm | 15 x 20.1 x 5.1 in

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Jae Ko JK466 Blue with Pink2018

Rolled paper, colored ink and glue

64 x 38 x 16 cm | 25.2 x 15 x 6.3 in

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Jae Ko JK715 Black2017

Rolled paper, colored ink and glue

114 x 35 x 25 cm | 44.9 x 13.8 x 9.8 in

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Jae Ko JK1042 Ultramarine Blue2012

Rolled paper, colored ink and glue

68 x 98 x 15 cm | 26.8 x 38.6 x 5.9 in

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Jae Ko JK1039 Ultramarine Blue with Sky Blue2010

Rolled paper, colored ink and glue

58 x 109 x 12 cm | 22.8 x 42.9 x 4.7 in

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Jae Ko JK448 Wine Carmine with White2017

Rolled paper, colored ink and glue

112 x 48 x 13 cm | 44.1 x 18.9 x 5.1 in

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Jae Ko JK 764 Black2017

Rolled paper, coloured ink and glue

76 x 32 x 43 cm | 29.9 x 12.6 x 16.9 in

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Jae Ko JK454 Wine Carmine with Orange2017

38 x 51 x 13 cm | 15 x 20.1 x 5.1 in

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Jae Ko JK2101, Ultramarine Blue with Black

Rolled paper and pigmented ink

139 x 112 x 8 cm | 54.7 x 44.1 x 3.1 in

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Jae Ko JK439 Red and Indian Yellow2023

Rolled paper and pigmented ink

105 x 55 x 14 cm | 41.3 x 21.7 x 5.5 in

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Jae Ko JK709 Cream2010

Rolled paper, colored ink, glue

170 x 60 x 42 cm | 66.9 x 23.6 x 16.5 in

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Jae Ko JK365 Crimson2015

Rolled paper, colour pigment and glue

56 x 44 x 15 cm | 22 x 17.3 x 5.9 in

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Jae Ko JK 764 Black2017

Rolled paper, colored ink and glue

76 x 32 x 43 cm | 29.9 x 12.6 x 16.9 in

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Jae Ko JK2154 Green2022

Rolled paper, colour pigment and glue

183 x 122 x 5 cm | 72 x 48 x 2 in

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Jae Ko JK2113 Ultramarine Blue2021

Rolled paper, Sumi ink and pigmented ink

81,3 x 81,3 x 12,7 cm | 32 x 32 x 5 in

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