User:Mojotravels/sandbox/Erin Ko

 is a mixed media artist based in New York City. Her work often includes video projection, augmented reality, and virtual reality and has been exhibited internationally in cities such as London, Mexico City, Beijing, New York, and Berlin.

Career
Ko received a B.F.A. in 1995 from the Studio for Interrelated Media at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She worked in video games and new media at Looking Glass Studios, Razorfish, and Blue Fang Games and is co-founder of Hutong Games. She combines traditional art making methods with the latest media tools to create art that plays with Mediated Reality, Collective Consciousness and Layered Experiences.

Ko contributes to the street art movement in New York City and Akumal, Mexico. She is co-founder and producer of the Akumal Arts Festival, a community based, global initiative bringing together over 100 street artists from around the world. In 2020, Ko was part of an unplanned street art collaboration for the Soho protest art movement supporting Black Lives Matter. In October 2020, Ko participated in Contemporary And Digital Art Fair’s Digital Art Month on the streets of NYC and Miami.

Awards and Residencies

 * 2016 Krema Kollettiva Inaugural Member
 * 2015 Eyeo Festival Artists Fellowship
 * 2013 Art Slant NY, 8th 2013 Showcase, new media winner
 * 2013 Call for Bushwick winner
 * 2012 Celeste Prize for installation, FLOW
 * 2011 Artist-in-residence at Ondarte International Artists’ Residency, Akumal, Mexico
 * 2011 Art Slant NY Showcase, mixed media winner
 * 2009-2010 Artist-in-residence at Imagine Gallery, Beijing

Selected Exhibitions

 * 2019 MoMAR Gallery, MOMA, NYC
 * 2019 Neo Kingdom, Speculative Cultures, The New School’s Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
 * 2019 Nacent, Zip Art Show III, NYC
 * 2018 Jersey City Art and Studio Tour (JCAST)
 * 2018 Tribeca Art & Culture
 * 2018 The Other Art Fair LA
 * 2018 Satellite Art Show, Miami
 * 2017 Spring/Break Art Show, NYC
 * 2016 Clio Art Fair in NYC
 * 2015 Walkabout, a solo show at Art Mora, NYC
 * 2013 Art Below, London
 * 2011 Ondarte Vernissage, Akumal, Mexico
 * 2011 We Are The Music Makers, a solo show at Gallery 51, North Adams, MA
 * 2010 Free Money, a solo show at Imagine Gallery, Beijing China
 * 2009 turn-berlin Gallery, Berlin, Germany
 * 2009 Sideshow Gallery, NYC
 * 2008 Ceres Gallery, NYC
 * 2005/2008 Eclipse Mill Gallery, North Adams, MA
 * 2004 Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA
 * 1999, Boston Cyber Arts, Boston, MA
 * 1998 Oni Gallery, Boston, MA