The ‘Box Boy’ looking like SpongeBob SquarePants is C.K.Koh’s archetypal hero in his art as well as in four of his illustrated children’s books by Magicbird Publishers namely Do Noses Grow Long When Lies Are Told? (2012), What Is Your Dream? (2014), Box Boy At The Zoo (2016), and Box Boy: Attack Of The Onion Army (2018). C.K.Koh’s inspiration for The Silver came from Lucha libre, the term used in Mexico for professional wrestling.
C.K.Koh graduated in a BA in Visual Communications at the University of Central England. He worked as a visual artist with Singapore’s Batey Ads, then The One Academy (head, fine arts division) and Magicbird Publishing (art director).He has had six solos since Pandora’s Box at The One Gallery in 2008, and his first overseas solo was at the Galerie Steph in Singapore in 2015, called A Thousand Works. C.K.Koh also had an installation booth (represented by NN Gallery), House Of Stars in Art Expo Malaysia 2017. His latest solo called The Wanderer was held at Gallery 10, KL recently.