Germaine Koh

Germaine Koh is an artist and organizer whose work ranges widely across media. Her work adapts familiar objects, everyday actions and common spaces to create situations that look at the significance of communal experiences and the connections between people, technology and natural systems. She was a 2023 winner of the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts and for the 2023–24 academic year, she was a Shadbolt Fellow at Simon Fraser University. She served as the City of Vancouver’s first Engineering Artist in Residence from 2018 to 2020 and was the 2021 Koerner Artist in Residence at the University of British Columbia, where she was appointed assistant professor of visual art in 2024. Koh’s ongoing projects include Home Made Home (2014–), an initiative to build and advocate for alternative forms of housing; League (2012–), a participatory project using play as a form of creative practice; and operating the Hemlock Micro Studio rural artist residency focused on land-based and sustainability practices. She is based on the west coast of Turtle Island in traditional Coast Salish territories.