Erin Ko

Erin Ko
tells stories through a mix of traditional art making methods with new technologies; often to address our complicated love/hate relationship with technology.

Classically trained in fine arts with 20+ years of experience as a game and app developer, her practice builds on hybrid approaches to art; sculpture, video, sound, with reality-expanding technologies viewers can opt in or out of.

The result is an ongoing mashup of street art, mixed reality, totems, paintings, NFTs, performances, wearables, and other collaborative works.

Some of Ko’s favorite themes to explore are layered realities, mediated realities, techno-socio isolation, digital privilege, and transcendence through technology.
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Erin has collaborated with many creators and organizations, including MoMAR, Third Rail Art, Radiance VR, The Gene Frankel Theatre, CADAF, JCMAP, Every Woman Biennial, and Recess. She is a member of Crema Colletiva, Lumen Prize, and MoMA’s R&D Salons. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including in London, Mexico City, Tulum, Beijing, New York, and Berlin.

More commercial include time spent at Looking Glass Studios, Razorfish, and Blue Fang Games.
She is the co-founder of Hutong Games, which aims to democratize game deve...

SELECTED AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
July 2021 :: Lumen Prize Longlist
May 2016 :: Krema Kollettiva, Crema, Italy :: Art Collective
June 2015 :: Eyeo Festival Artists Fellowship
Autumn 2013 :: Art Slant NY :: 8th 2013 Showcase – new-media – winner
September 2012 :: Selection – Celeste Prize – Installation / Sculpture Others selected :: ‘FLOW’
September – November 2011 :: Ondarte International Artists’ Residency :: Artist-in-residence
Winter 2009– Spring 2010 :: Imagine Gallery Beijing :: Artist-in-residence

SELECTED HAPPENINGS
MARCH 2024 :: Let Her Reign! Arty Goodness, NYC
MARCH 2024 :: Every Woman Biennial, La Mama Galleria, NYC, Installation + Performance
MARCH 2024 :: Songs From the Source, XREnsemble, Culture Lab NYC, Performance
JANUARY 2024 :: Karmic Fray, Pete’s Candy Store, NYC, Performance
OCTOBER 2023 :: THIRSTY!, AllStreet Gallery, NYC, Producer, Visual Art, Performance
JUNE 2023 :: Local Hero, Local Projects, NYC
MAY 2023 :: Doc Aviv XR Festival, Tel Aviv
APRIL 2023 :: Sideshow Books, Los Angeles, Performance
APRIL 2023 :: WOOD BURY SOA – Guest Lecturer
DECEMBER 2022 :: FEMTURISTIC, Arts Empire NYC x Blue Gallery, Installation + Performance
NOVEMBER 2022 :: Be A Lover Fest
NOVEMBER 2022 :: CADAF DIGITAL ART FAIR
NOVEMBER 2022 :: Equal Bytes NFT, Makersplace x ExcedrinPartnership
MAY 2022 :: Hands Off My Cuntry, An emergency response to the SCOTUS leak to overturn Roe Vs. Wade • Curated by Savannah Spirit
APRIL 2022 :: ART WITH ME, AHAU, TULUM
FEBRUARY 2022 :: Make Us Visible, NYPL, XREnsemble/Pollinate
JANUARY 2022 :: Brave New World, Tulum Inside Out, Tulum Mexico :: Solo Show
DECEMBER 2021 :: NFT NYC :: Pollinate, Art Basel Miami
JUNE 2021 :: EVERY WOMAN BIENNIAL, NFT show, Super Chief Gallery, NYC
JUNE 2021 :: Jerse...