Ray Koh

RAY KOH is a 9-time winner of the Creative Quarterly Journal (CQ57, CQ56, CQ55, CQ53, CQ49, CQ48, CQ47, CQ46, CQ45) winning in multiple categories of fine art and photography.

KOH specializes in fine art and filmmaking. He has a unique multi-disciplinary background in art & architecture, branding & design, film & photography, and real estate & development. He is capable of working in any medium, discipline, scale and has the fluidity that threads all of them together. Koh maintains his namesake creative studio, KOH,co. which focuses on privately developing intellectual creative properties.

Koh’s fine artwork utilizes drone technologies which allows him to conceptually draw and paint using ocean water, time, and light. However, unlike most drone enthusiasts, Koh works more akin to an archaeologist where his brush is more an eraser that removes unnecessary elements so that only extracted subject-matter remains. The work he has developed focuses on primordial artistic concepts and subject-matter expressed through artist portraits, line drawings, still life, and abstracts.

More than ever, Koh believes that we must deal with the ramifications of technologies that accelerate our lives into nearly unsustainable velocity. With t...

Harvard University - Graduate School of Design
Columbia University - Art History
Columbia University - Architecture
SCI-Arc - Architecture

2020 Member’s Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art. Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
04.11.20-5.10.20

2020 Creative Quarterly 100 Best Annual 2020 Exhibition, CQ Gallery. New York, NY
03.13.20-4.13.20

2020 25th Annual International, Hopkins Center for the Art, Hopkins, MN [traveling show]
01.09.20 - 02.15.20

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2019 SF MoMA Instagram & Tumblr 3X Featured Artist (multiple occasions)

2019 Celebrating Monterey County, Government Center Administration Building. Salinas, CA
12.01.19 - 12.01.20

2019 Urban Landscape, Texas Photographic Society. Houston, TX
10.26.19 - 01.04.20

2019 International Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art. Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
11.02.19 - 12.22.19

2019 Photography Exhibition, Monmouth Museum, Monmouth, NJ
09.15.19 - 11.10.19

2019 Convergences, Harrington Gallery, Pleasanton, CA
09.28.19 - 10.26.19

2019 Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Art. Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
04.07.19 - 06.12.19

2019 24th Annual International, Hopkins Center for the Art, Hopkins, MN [traveling show]
01.10.19 - 03.28.19

2019 The Open Road, Cultural Center of Cape Cod. South Yarmouth, MA
09.20.19 - 10.28.19

2019 Wanderlust, Cultural Center of Cape Cod. South Yarmouth, MA
02.20....