Born: 1981 Los Angeles, CA USA

Education: 2003 B.F.A. with Honors
Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA

solo shows
2008
“Tangled Tales” - Tinlark Gallery in Los Angeles, CA
2006
"I Walk And Rivers Run"  - GRNY in New York, NY
2005
"A Wink is Half a Blink" - GR2 in Los Angeles, CA

group shows
2008
“Sea No Evil” – curated by RVCA at Riverside Art Museum in Riverside, CA
“826LA Benefit Show” – curated by Poketo at Echo Park Time Travel Mark in Echo Park, CA

2007
“Giant Robot Biennale” – Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, CA
“Hidden Habitats” – two person show – GR2 in Los Angeles, CA
“Salty: Three Tales of Sorrow” – El Camino College Art Gallery in Torrance, CA
“Fecal Face 7.5 Year Anniversary Show” – 111 Minna in San Francisco, CA
“Free To A Good Home” – Giant Robot in Los Angeles, CA
“Charity By Numbers” – Corey Helford in Los Angeles, CA
“Dirty Hands” – Cinders Gallery in Brooklyn, NY
“Printed Matter” – GRSF in San Francisco, CA
“Wurstminister Dog Show” – Wurst Gallery in Portland, OR
“Free To A Good Home”  - GR2 in Los Angeles, CA       

2006
"Heavenly Friends" - St. Lawrence University, NY
"Tree Show 2" - Giant Robot in San Francisco, CA
"Zine Show" - Junc Gallery in Los Angeles, CA
"Power in Numbers" - Nucleus Gallery in Alhambra, CA
"Drawn to Expression" - Williamson Gallery in Pasadena, CA
"2nd anniversary show" - Giant Robot in San Francisco, CA
"artLA" - Art fair in Los Angeles, CA through New Image in Los Angeles, CA

2005
"Incognito" - Santa Monica Museum of Art in Santa Monica, CA
"The Family Room" - Cinders Gallery in Brooklyn, NY
"Flood the Gutters" - three person show - New Image Art in Los Angeles, CA
"Paper Bagged Lunches" - Art Prostitute in Denton, TX
"Girl Show" - Nucleus Gallery in Alhambra, CA
"New Traditionalists" - Subliminal Projects in Los Angeles, CA
"I'm Glad We Met" - two person show - Giant Robot in San Francisco, CA
"Tree Group Show" - Giant Robot in San Francisco, CA

2004
"Artistic Utopia" - La Luz de Jesus in Los Angeles, CA
"Tree Trimmings" - Track 16 Gallery in Los Angeles, CA
"Twelve Days" - Motel Gallery in Porland, OR
"Incognito" - Santa Monica Museum of Art in Santa Monica, CA
"Nook and Cranny" - New Image Art Gallery in Los Angeles, CA
"Post It Note Show" - Junc Gallery in Los Angeles, CA
"A Day on the Lawn" - Froden Gallery in Los Angeles, CA
"The Stray Show" - Art fair in Chicago, IL through New Image in Los Angeles, CA
"Three Minutes of Happiness" - Selective Hearing in San Diego, CA
"Plustastrophe" - Basil Halward Gallery in Portland, OR and traveling
"The Skull Show" - Hanna Gallery in Tokyo, Japan
"Close to Home" - GR2 in Los Angeles, CA

2003
"After School Special" - Culture Cache in San Francisco, CA
"Long Gone Holiday" - Motel Gallery in Portland, OR
"From the West Coast to the West Country" - Here Gallery in Bristol, U.K
"Feathered Friends" - Motel Gallery in Portland, OR
"Looking Up" - Ghetto Gloss in Silver Lake, CA
"Lead Poisoning" - New Image Art Gallery in Los Angeles, CA
"Robots Have Feelings Too" - Culture Cache in San Francisco, CA
"Puddle Jumpers" - three person show - New Image Art Gallery in Los Angeles, CA

lectures
2006 Harvard University - Advocate Arts

2006 Saint Lawrence University

TANGLED TALES - STATEMENT 

Saelee Oh’s “Tangled Tales” is a collection of paintings and sculptural explorations of the sorrows and hopes brought on by love. Oh invents rich imaginary worlds ruled by mythic creatures and flora, as experienced from the eyes of a female protagonist. Each piece is a whimsical vignette– the adventures of a magic ghost cat, a subterranean rendezvous, and a bundle of letters delivered via moth– fanciful, romantic, but also complex in emotion. Inspired by folk arts, organic forms, and vintage children’s books, Saelee Oh creates multi-layered works by integrating traditional painting and drawing with three-dimensional paper cut-outs.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Oh graduated from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in 2003 with a BFA in illustration. Her work has been shown in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Texas, New York, United Kingdom and Japan among others, and the artist has lectured at Harvard University and Saint Lawrence University.