Ahra Ko is a textile artist and dyer working across film, theatre, performance, fashion, and textile art in Canada and Korea.

With over 15 years between production and the studio, her practice moves through dyeing, breakdown FX, ageing, hand embroidery, and costume construction — an ongoing study of how colour, texture, and surface can give character to a body, movement to a scene, and story to the screen and stage.

A member of IATSE Local 891, she was part of The Dye Dept. team honoured with the 2021 CAFTCAD Excellence in Crafts Award for Textile Arts.

Rooted in a long-held connection to Korean culture — including formal training in Korean traditional embroidery — her work is now opening into research and performance, tracing the ties between Korean dance, music, costume, and a textile-based visual language.