Sangho NOH
Glitches, Miracles, and Machine Dreams
THE SKATEROOM is proud to present a new collection with Korean artist Sangho Noh, featuring limited edition skate decks and fine art print editions drawn from his ongoing HOLY series.
Born in Seoul in 1986, Sangho Noh belongs to a generation of artists shaped by the internet and the endless circulation of digital images. For over a decade, his work has explored how images are collected, transformed, and consumed in an increasingly virtual world. Working across painting, sculpture, and video, Noh translates fragments of contemporary visual culture into physical artworks, creating unexpected connections between digital experiences and material reality.
At the heart of this collection is HOLY, a body of work that marks a significant evolution in the artist's practice. Rather than sourcing imagery directly from the internet, Noh began working with AI-generated images, embracing artificial intelligence as a new creative collaborator. The resulting scenes appear familiar at first glance, yet closer inspection reveals impossible details: figures with too many fingers, animals with multiple heads, landscapes that obey their own strange logic. These are images that look real, while depicting worlds that could never exist.
For Noh, these technological imperfections are not errors to be corrected. They are moments of revelation.
The title HOLY reflects the artist's fascination with the feelings of wonder, awe, and unease that emerge when AI-generated images drift beyond the boundaries of reality. Noh compares these encounters to myths, miracles, and religious visions, seeing something unexpectedly profound within the glitches and inconsistencies of machine-generated imagery. What appears as a technical mistake becomes a portal into another way of seeing.
Throughout the HOLY series, Noh imagines himself moving between digital and physical worlds, acting almost as an intermediary between human imagination and machine intelligence. His paintings preserve these fleeting moments where technology produces something it was never explicitly programmed to create: images that feel simultaneously absurd, beautiful, unsettling, and strangely believable.
Sangho NOH x THE SKATEROOM
Presented on skate decks and print editions, these works take on yet another transformation. Images born from algorithms, translated into paintings, are reimagined as collectible objects that can be displayed, lived with, and experienced in everyday space. The collection reflects the central question running throughout Noh's practice: how do images evolve as they move between different worlds, technologies, and audiences?
While still emerging on the international stage, Sangho Noh has become one of the most compelling voices in contemporary Korean art. His work has been exhibited across Seoul, Shanghai, and Tokyo, and has earned recognition for its thoughtful engagement with the technologies that increasingly shape how we see and understand the world.
With HOLY, Noh invites us into a universe where glitches become miracles, artificial intelligence becomes mythology, and the boundaries between the real and the imagined begin to dissolve.
