Haji Oh

Haji Oh (b. 1976) is a Zainichi Korean artist from Osaka, living and working in Wollongong, Australia and Japan. An accomplished international textile and

ber artist, Oh studied Dyeing and Weaving at the Kyoto City University of the Arts, receiving her MA in 2002 and PhD in 2012. She was recently awarded the Tokyo Contemporary Art Award (TCAA) for 2024-2026 and named as a finalist for the ANTEPRIMA x Center for Heritage Arts and Textile (CHAT) Contemporary Textile Art Prize.

 

Oh’s recent exhibitions include KANTEN:観展 The Limits of History, apexart, New York 2023; Roppongi Crossing: Coming & Going, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo 2022-23; TEXTURE, Canberra Contemporary Art Space 2023; Publicness of the Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Japan 2019-2020; Memories in Weaving, Oyama City Kurumaya Museum of Art, Japan 2019; Kanazawa: Altering Home, Neighborhoods in Kanazawa City; and Wearing Memory, University of Wollongong, 2015. She received the Han Chang-Woo-Tetsu Cultural Foundation Grant in 2011, and has completed artist residencies at Art Tower Mito and Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Japan; and Bundanon and University of Wollongong, Australia.